✣Pope orders change to Catechism on death penalty
What happened? Pope Francis changed the wording of the Catechism on the death penalty. There was widespread disagreement, however, about the meaning of the change, in which the death penalty was said to be “inadmissible”. The Catechism previously said that Church teaching “does not exclude recourse to the death penalty”, while urging governments to avoid using it where possible. It is unclear whether the Pope was implying that the death penalty was intrinsically immoral.
