{"id":1521,"date":"2018-08-10T05:50:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T05:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1521"},"modified":"2025-09-29T16:55:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:55:57","slug":"comprehensive-explanation-of-the-changes-in-the-catholic-catechism-on-the-death-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1521","title":{"rendered":"Comprehensive explanation of change in the catechism on the death penalty &#8211; not a difficult read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The author is<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/edward-mechmann-b1781433\/\"> Ed Mechmann<\/a>, the Director of Public Policy for the Archdiocese of NY. I know Ed &#8211; great guy. Family man and graduate of Harvard Law School.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad387a426200d-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Edward mechmann\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad387a426200d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad387a426200d-150wi\" style=\"width: 140px;\" title=\"Edward mechmann\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It takes about ten minutes to read the whole article, which is a re-posting onto National Review Online. I urge anyone interested in this subject to hit the link and read carefully.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/08\/pope-francis-death-penalty-and-catholic-teaching\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202018-08-08&amp;utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives\">Pope Francis\u2019s Challenging Lesson in Mercy <\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"article-header__subtitle\">The Holy Father\u2019s teaching on the death penalty is a development, not a contradiction, because it adapts the same principles of the faith to new situations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><strong>Editor\u2019s Note:<\/strong> A version of this essay was <a href=\"https:\/\/archny.org\/news\/a-challenging-lesson-in-mercy\">previously published<\/a> by the Archdiocese of New York.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"drop\">L<\/span>ast week, the Holy See announced that Pope Francis had approved a revision to the&#0160;<em>Catechism of the Catholic Church<\/em>&#0160;regarding the death penalty. This has provoked considerable controversy, and I believe that is because many people haven\u2019t fully understood exactly what has happened. The controversy has been over whether this new language contradicts prior Church teaching and thus casts into doubt the teaching authority of the Church. I am certain that it does not, and I will explain why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The author is Ed Mechmann, the Director of Public Policy for the Archdiocese of NY. I know Ed &#8211; great guy. Family man and graduate of Harvard Law School. It takes about ten minutes to read the whole article, which is a re-posting onto National Review Online. I urge anyone interested in this subject to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6114,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions\/6114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}