The Catholic Church's Anti-Death Penalty Disaster (various version sent 1997-2023)
To: Throughout the world:
1) Religious groups/media, primarily, Catholic institutions, worldwide,
bcc, at bottom
2) Media -- Editors, producers, Bureau Chiefs, Directors, Managers and government/crime/political reporters, etc
3) Throughout the US
Victims Groups, Governors & staff, State Legislators & staff, Judges, Attorney Generals, District/Prosecuting Attorneys Orgs, Police/Sherrifs Orgs, State Corrections and many more
From: Dudley Sharp, independent researcher, death penalty expert, former opponent, 832-439-2113, CV at bottom
The Church has avoided fact checking, vetting and critical thinking, for, nearly, 30 years (1995 forward). This is not in dispute, as detailed below, with all sources provided and no Church rebuttal, for many, many years.
1) The Catholic Church & The Death Penalty:
12 (14) Factual Errors: 2018 CCC 2267 amendment
2) Catechism & State Protection:
The Gross Negligence of the Holy See
3) “Capital Punishment and Magisterial Authority”
"Fastiggi on Capital Punishment and the Change to the Catechism,
Part I," Edward Feser, 8/26/2023,
Part 2, 8/30/2023
4) Does Truth Matter? Sr. Prejean, The Church & U of Notre Dame
5) The Death Penalty: Mercy, Expiation, Redemption & Salvation
6) 30 Examples: How Death Penalty Abolitionists Value Murderers
More Than Their Innocent Victims:
AKA - Full Rebuttal of Sir Richard Branson &
His Death Penalty Comments
7) BISHOPS HIDE TRUTH FROM THEIR FLOCK: DEATH PENALTY
8) Catholic Bishops: So Wrong on Death Penalty
9) What Did Jesus Teach about Violence and
Turning the Other Cheek?
J. Daryl Charles, Timothy J. Demy, Crossway,
May 16, 2014,
10) Jesus and the death penalty
https://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2013/06/jesus-and-death-penalty.html
https://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2013/06/jesus-and-death-penalty.html
11) Sister Helen Prejean: Her Lies, Deceptions . . . and/or
Astounding Willful Ignorance? - A Compilation
12) All Anti-Death Penalty Claims Rebutted:
With no fact checking nor vetting, The Church has depended upon anti-death penalty frauds, for decades. With all sources, those frauds are corrected, here:
a) The Death Penalty: Justice & Saving More Innocents
and
b) Students, Academics & Journalists: Death Penalty Research
(7 pro-death penalty experts & contact info)
13) Pope Francis' Reign and Ruin
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600+ pro death penalty quotes from murder victim's families &
3300+ from some of the greatest thinkers in history
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Victim Services
Victims' Voices
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Research, w/sources, w/fact checking/vetting & critical thinking, as required of anyone within a public policy debate and which rebut all anti-death penalty claims.
The Death Penalty: Justice & Saving More Innocents
and
Students, Academics & Journalists: Death Penalty Research
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Partial CV
BCC: Biblical & Theological Scholars, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Word on Fire, The Tablet, First Things, National Catholic Reporter, America, Our Sunday Visitor, American Society of Religion, Oxford Academic, Board of Directors-Catholic Media Association, Jesuits-Global, Vatican News, Crux, Catholic News Service (Rome), Global Sisters Report, Crisis Magazine, EWTN, The Catholic Herald (UK), Glenmary Challenge Magazine, SIGHT, World Evangelical Alliance (Leadership Team), Catholic Review, Archdiocese of Boston, The Compass, The Sentinal, Roman Catholic Communicators of Canada, Novalis Publishing Archdioces of St.Louis & St.Louis Review, Our Northland Diocese & Diocese of Crookston, Catholic New York, Archdiocese of Detroit & Detroit Catholic. ONE Magazine, Religion Unplugged (The Media Project), Archdioces of Lousiville, Global Pulse, Nebraska Catholic Conference (NCC), Tom Venzor, executive director of the Nebraska Catholic Conference (NCC) Nebraska Catholic Bishops, staff and parishes, UCA NEWS, Twenty-Third Publications, Archdiocese of Detroit, Eureka Street, The Acton Institute, The Word On Fire, Holy See Mission, The Witherspoon Institute, University of the Incarnate Word, Diocese of Fort Worth, Sacred Heart Major Seminary, Churches throughout Oklahoma, Oklahoma Baptist Convention, Oklahoma Faith Network,OKLAHOMA STATE COUNCIL FELLOWSHIP OF CHURCHES, Catholic News Agency (CNA),Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma,Catholic Conference of Oklahoma, Hope For Generations, Young Israel, Torah in Motion, World Mizrachi, Jewish Federation (Tulsa, Oklahoma), The Synagogue Congregation B'nai Emunah (Oklahoma) Temple B'nai Israel (Oklahoma), Oklahoma Center for Community and Justice, Tulsa Metropolitan Ministries (Oklahoma), Family Promise of Tulsa County (Oklahoma),La Croix International, People of Praise, Nebraska Catholic Bishops (staff and parishes), Creighton U., Seton High School (Students & Teachers, Bladensburg, MD), The Catholic Weekly (Australia), Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, Catholic Conference of Oklahoma, Diocese of Salt Lake City, Arizona Catholic Conference, Religious News Assoc., Diocese of Green Bay, Rev. Harry D. Gatewood, M.Div., Louisiana Catholic Diocese (Bishops and staff), The Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS), Catholic Digest, Catholic Journal, Today's (SA) Catholic, US Catholic, The Catholic Weekly, Crisis Magazine, FAITH Magazine, Catholic Telegraph, The Irish Catholic, Archdiocese of Seattle, NW Catholic, Zenit, NZ Catholic, The Central Minnesota Catholic, The Catholic Network, The Universe Catholic Weekly, Broadview, Angelus News, Duke Divinity School. REligion Unplugged, The Associated Church Press, The Christian Recorder, PCUSA.org, Prison Fellowship, Pennsylvania Prison Society, Archdiocese of Miami, Augustinian Defenders of the Rights of the Poor (ADROP), Order of Malta, Catholic Prison Ministries Coalition, Virginia Catholic Conference & Diocese of Richmond, All Students & Teachers St. Joseph's Academy (Baton Rouge) , Loyola U., Holy Trinity Catholic Church (Washington DC), Archdiocese of San Antonio, DeSales Media Group & Diocese of Brooklyn, RENEW Intl., Angelus News, FloridaCatholic, Catholic Standard and Archdiocese of Washington DC, Oklahoma Diocese, Where Peter Is, The Wanderer, Nebraska Diocese, The Dialog & Diocese of Wilmington, Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, Catholic Herald, Catholic Philly & Philadelphia Archdiocese, Intermountain Catholic & Diocese of Salt Lake City, Opus Dei, Notre Dame Observer, Diocese of Raleigh, Diocese of Scranton, Renew Intl., Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), Archdiocese of Cincinnati, Catholic League, The Sisters of Saint Dominic (Blauvelt, New York), The Catholic Telegraph, Church Militant, The Catholic Sun, New Advent, The (Fordham U) Observer, St. Patrick Catholic Community (Scottsdale, Az.), Diocese of St. Cloud, Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, Diocese of Tucson, Catholic Daughters of America, The Record & Archdiocese of Louisville, The Archdiocese of Los Angeles, Father Pablo Espinosa Matta, Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church, Alpine, Texas, Bishop Tom Brown, Word of Life Church, East El Paso, Diocese of El Paso many more
U of Notre Dame Institutions
Exoneration Justice Clinic (Notre Dame Law School), Klau Institute of Civil and Human Rights, G. Marcus Cole, Dean, Notre Dame Law School, ND's de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, ND's Tocqueville Program for Inquiry into Religion and Public Life, ND's Program on Church, State & Society, All Professors, Notre Dame Law School, ND's Center for Social Concerns, Gallivan Journalism Program, ND Debate Team, ND's Dept. Of Theology, Notre Dame Magazine, The (ND) Observer, Notre Dame News, WSND Radio-FM,
and South Bend Tribune and AWAKE
