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Christine Niles @ChristineNiles1 - Fr. George Rutler writes: "Pope Pius XII was so eager for vindictive penalties that he lent the help of a Jesuit archivist to assist the prosecutors at the Nuremberg trials. He personally told the chief United States prosecutor, Robert Jackson: 'Not only do we approve of the trial, but we desire that the guilty be punished as quickly as possible.'
This was not in spite of, but issuing from, his understanding of the dual role of healing and vindication [of the death penalty]. All this should not be remaindered as historical curiosities, for, as Pope Pius XII said, 'the coercive power of legitimate human authority' has its roots in 'the sources of revelation and traditional doctrine' and so it must not be said 'that these sources only contain ideas which are conditioned by historical circumstances' for they have 'a general and abiding validity.' (Acta Apostolica Sedis, 1955, pp.81-82)."
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Christine Niles @ChristineNiles1
I admit I'm among those confused by the Church's changing stance on the death penalty. I understand the arguments for both sides.
Fr. George Rutler wrote an excellent article several years ago titled "Hanging Concentrates the Mind," which argues for the medicinal purpose of the death penalty, and highlights the work of the Vatican executioner, and the religious community who accompanied the condemned to the scaffold. They had a 100% success rate in ensuring the condemned died with the sacraments, in the state of grace.
"The medicinal reason for inflicting punishment, goes beyond preventing the criminal from repeating his crime and protecting society, to encouraging the guilty to repent and die in a state of grace. The vindictive reasoning also has this interest in mind: for by expiating the disorder caused by the crime, the moral debt of the guilty is lessened.
In the early years of the nineteenth century, St. Vincent Pallotti frequently assisted the condemned to the scaffold, as St. Catherine had done in Siena. He was edified by the many holy deaths he saw, while helping the Archfraternity of San Giovanni, under the patronage of his friend the English Cardinal Acton.'
(Photo: robe, ax, gloves of Giovanni Battista Bugatti, Vatican executioner, who executed 514 people over 68 years, all with the sanction of the pope)
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