Pope Leo XIV declares death penalty inadmissible amid US livestream plans
One day after the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the National Association of Evangelicals came out against the Pentagon’s plan to livestream an execution, Pope Leo has published a tweet reiterating the Catholic Church’s opposition to the death penalty.
Jack Jenkins163Note: it’s also the World Day Against the Death Penalty, so it’s entirely possible this tweet was pre-scheduled. But it sure landed at an interesting time!
Rose24Murder and execution should NEVER be used as entertainment! Anyone who calls themselves a Christian should remember Jesus stopped a woman from being stoned. And His cautioning us that any who live by the sword will die by it. And that Commandment against murder --- It didn't come with exceptions.
Aidan L. Foire10Has the Southern Baptists/Franklin Graham weighed in yet?
Harry Pujols7This has been the position of the Catholic Church for a very long time, as I understand.
|-o-| The Dark Moose |-o-|5There's an even better reason to not support the death penalty: We don't have infallible knowledge to wield death as judgement. If someone is on death row by mistake, the system incentivizes prosecutors to suppress esculpatory evidence after trial. No one wants to claim that kind of mistake.
Audax Club Philadelphia4But public executions are so effective at halting crime! Ever since the King had his enemies drawn and quartered in the public square, England has been crime free!
Elise Wang40Fun fact: the Catholic church’s opposition to the death penalty is how we got the jury trial. It started in 1215!
Jack Jenkins38Trump has published a Truth Social post pointing to Robert Jeffress — a longtime Trump supporter and pastor of First Baptist Dallas — and his support for a public execution.* Note: the USCCB, National Association of Evangelicals, Union for Reform Judaism and others have come out against the plans.
Patrick De Klotz22Yep, the pope really believes Heaven is real, and that the knowledge of when an individual is beyond salvation belongs to God and not man.
UK Prime Minister, Some Say Sinister20[just a whisper] excommunicate vance excommunicate vance [several murmurs together] excommunicate vance excommunicate vance [en masse] Excommunicate Vance! Excommunicate VANCE [massed bellowing, stamping, banging desks] EXCOMMUNICATE VANCE!!! EXCOMMUNICATE VANCE!!! [total uproar, bullets in the air]
frank13the whole practice is obviously barbaric but the redemption piece is key to me. if we write people off as completely beyond redemption that's an indictment on us
Derek Powazek11Why is THE POPE still using the website for nazis and perverts?
Jerald Lentini5It’s not surprising that the Catholic Church is so adamantly against the death penalty. Heck, this guy killed the pope and they didn’t even excommunicate him.
Drew T3It’s almost as if the Pope really believes in Christianity, that’s actually kinda refreshing
Jill Sargent Russell, PhD3bsky.app/profile/jack... He has united Catholics and Evangelicals.
Will2You can't be pro life and republican. It doesn't exist.
POPE LEO: “The death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person. The common good can be safeguarded and the requirements of justice can be met without recourse to capital punishment…”
👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻607Once again having to explain my teenage self that inexplicably, we are fighting side by side with the Catholic Church
Gwen Snyder is uncivil145Cue JD lecturing the Pope on church doctrine
𝐉𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐠𝐚𝐚𝐫𝐝 🇵🇸🇲🇲🇬🇱🇨🇺18Hvis det ikke var for mine ateistiske gener, var det til at blive helt katolsk af.
Hypatia L.A. Seneschale15Being on the same side as the Catholic Church over the last few months has felt like the third act trope of bitter rivals teaming up to fight the Bigger Bad.
K Wilde9Christian Nationalists: "Listen. God didn't really mean 'thou shall not kill' lit'rally, ya dopes. What else will we do with these animals?"
[The Great War & Modern Memory]8For the record, the SCOTUS is majority Catholic. They are okay with the death penalty. As are many rank-and-file "pro-life" Catholic parishioners.
LeithMotive6Beginning to get the impression that this Pope is not a fan of the government of the USA.
eek5got the sense 'inadmissible' had a specific theological meaning and it is, in fact, Leo reiterating a specific phrasing Francis repeated about the death penalty that that American conservatives hated
Dave Jones4This absolutely ends with the US denouncing Catholicism and setting up a new Church of America, an official state religion that requires an annual membership fee
Keith Adams4JD Vance: is this socialism?
Outrageous! Pope Leo doesn't understand he's supposed to run these things by JD Vance and SCOTUS.
🌙 𝕹𝖎𝖙𝖊-𝕺𝖜𝖑🦉3The self-importance of these hypocrites is mind-blowing.
Girl from Downers Grove3I will NEVER forget JD Vance, Catholic for a minute, lecturing the Pope. Stunning in his audacity, his hubris, his "all surface" personality. The most inauthentic politician I've ever seen in my long life.
Gonçalo C. Vale2Note that the Catholic Church only definitely rejected the death penalty in 2018 by Pope Francis.
ロン1Because of course, we recognize JD as the one true catholic.
Pope Leo XIV has posted on his official X account that the Catholic Church holds the death penalty to be “inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
Robin D. Ashe4I wish he had an official account here.
Luis4Good! For a brief moment I was afraid Leo would not be strong as Francis was on this. I wonder now what certain “Catholic Intellectuals” like Fraser will say (they defend it to the extreme)
tomeco81.bsky.social4"Inherent dignity of every human person dictates that no matter the severity of an individual's crimes, the State must never reduce justice to a barbaric public spectacle. A public execution promotes a culture of death that erodes our social fabric." Join: www.change.org/p/stop-the-p...
John Carpenter’s Halloran43Today is the twenty-third annual World Day Against the Death Penalty. I believe that the state should not have to power to kill people under its care and custody. I believe that there is no criminal act that one can commit that is degrading enough to one’s humanity such that it justifies execution.
David Darmofal9People often overinterpret things the Pope says as being solely about the Trump-Vance administration. But this one is clearly the result of the Trump-Vance administration and Hegseth's actions.
The Fifth Dentist4Waiting for Pope Vance to correct him on his error.
Betcy Jose3Waiting for the VP to Vanceplain to the Pope on this
“Pope Leo XIV declared capital punishment ‘inadmissible’ as he marked the World Day Against the Death Penalty and his native United States announced plans to livestream an execution by firing squad.” www.ncronline.org/vatican/vati...
Gabe Ortíz71Pope Leo “quoted the revised Catholic teaching on capital punishment ushered in by Pope Francis that the death penalty attacks the inherent dignity of a human being.” “The common good can be safeguarded and the requirements of justice can be met without recourse to capital punishment," Leo wrote.
Michael Jacobs22I eagerly await JD Vance calling out the pope on this.
Ianrobo6the Ten Commandments are kinda clear on killing ...
