The Vatican said Thursday
that Pope Francis has written to bishops about a change to the
Catechism of the Catholic Church regarding the death penalty.
It said that while the death penalty was long considered an
appropriate response to certain crimes, there is an increasing
awareness that the dignity of the person is not lost even after
the commission of very serious crimes.
As a result, it said that Church now teaches that "the death
penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the
inviolability and dignity of the person", adding the Church
works for its abolition worldwide.
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