This headline will cause consternation because a Pope cannot change the Church’s teaching on the death penalty in such a way that the Church now says that the death penalty is “intrinsically evil”. After all, God commanded the death penalty and God cannot command what is intrinsically evil. Hence, all application of the death penalty must be bound up with prudential judgment. The parameters of prudential judgment can shift over time.
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