Holy See: ‘Death penalty the most shocking thing in the world’ vaticannews.va
We mark the 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty in the wake of Pope Francis’ encyclical Fratelli tutti.
Pope Francis had already ordered a change in the Catechism of the Catholic Church in 2018 when he termed the death penalty “inadmissible.” In a section of the just released encyclical dedicated to the death penalty, the Pope goes further, calling on Catholics to work for its abolition…
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Saint of the Day
- St. Marcellus, Pope St. Marcellus, Pope Feast date: Jan 16 Nothing of Marcellus' life before his papacy has survived the centuries. He became Pope at the end of the persecutions of Diocletian in aound 308-309. The persecutions had disrupted the Church so much that there had been a gap of over a year with no Pope. Once he was elected, […]
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