75 Catholic priests and scholars ask Francis to backtrack on death penalty
An open letter was published Wednesday morning in First Things, a conservative-leaning Catholic journal, and was signed by several prominent Catholics, including Fr. George Rutler and Fr. Gerald Murray of the Archdiocese of New York.
The letter argues that, by refining Church teaching on the death penalty, Pope Francis casts doubt on the authority of the church’s teaching body, known as the magisterium.
“To contradict Scripture and tradition on this point would cast doubt on the credibility of the magisterium in general,” the letter reads, calling Pope Francis’s decision a “gravely scandalous situation.”
The signatories call upon the College of Cardinals “to advise His Holiness that it is his duty to put an end to this scandal, to withdraw this paragraph from the Catechism, and to teach the word of God unadulterated.”
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