2006-12-29 11:03:18 · 6 answers · asked by rallman@sbcglobal.net 5 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
December 29: Vatican official says executing Saddam would be wrong: http://www.kwqc.com/Global/story.asp?S=5865506&nav=menu83_2
December 30: Vatican spokesman denounces Saddam's execution as 'tragic': http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2006-12-30-vatican-saddam_x.htm?csp=34
Jesus, John 8:1-11, spares a women guilty of adultery whom the Mosaic Law said should be stoned to death.
If the guilty person's identity and responsibility has been fully determined then non-lethal means to defend and protect the people's safety from the aggressor are more in keeping with the common good and the dignity of the human person.
The Church does not exclude recourse to the death penalty, if this is the only possible way of effectively defending human lives.
However in today's modern society, the capability of rendering the offender incapable of doing harm - without definitively taking away from him the possibility of redeeming himself - the cases in which the execution of the offender is an absolute necessity are very rare, if not practically non-existent.
With love in Christ.
2007-01-01 15:53:38 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
can you hear this? SHUT UP!
what do you care its not your business the iraqis who were his victims have decided Saddam's fate. the rest of the world needs to butt the F U CK out now. what would you have donw with him given him the old General Noriega trial and sentence .. where IS Noriega anyway..ask your government ..he just might be your neighbor .
2006-12-29 19:12:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pope's too new to be pleading for anything.
2006-12-29 19:08:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no i heard that the pope does not believe in the death penalty period.neither doe Germany,France,Italy,Spain.and others in Europe but they did say that it was a fair trial.......
2006-12-29 19:09:17 · answer #4 · answered by ggmsixer 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
no, he does not want to offend the muslim world again.
2006-12-29 20:57:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061229/ap_on_re_mi_ea/saddam_quote_box_2
2006-12-29 19:11:10 · answer #6 · answered by kristen 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋