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3 Aug 2018, 7:44 am by Christopher Hsu
The change was initially brought before Pope Francis on May 18. [read post]
3 Aug 2018, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
  The new language, approved by Pope Francis, says:Recourse to the death penalty on the part of legitimate authority, following a fair trial, was long considered an appropriate response to the gravity of certain crimes and an acceptable, albeit extreme, means of safeguarding the common good.Today, however, there is an increasing awareness that the dignity of the person is not lost even after the commission of very serious crimes. [read post]
2 Aug 2018, 5:26 pm by Howard Bashman
“The Pope’s Death Penalty Message Is for a Small Audience; American lawmakers — and three or four judges in particular — should be listening”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg View. [read post]
2 Aug 2018, 11:32 am by Steve Bainbridge
Crux reports that: The Vatican announced on Thursday Pope Francis approved changes to the compendium of Catholic teaching published under Pope John Paul II. [read post]
2 Aug 2018, 9:22 am by Tom Smith
According to Ladaria, the new formulation of the Catechism expresses “an authentic development of doctrine that is not in contradiction with the prior teachings of the Magisterium. [read post]
1 Aug 2018, 1:43 pm by Joe Patrice
Just when the United States couldn't afford another instance of international buffoonery... [read post]
29 Jul 2018, 4:18 am by Tom Smith
A Vatican statement said the pope ordered McCarrick's suspension from the exercise of any public ministry. [read post]
28 Jul 2018, 8:07 pm by Howard Friedman
Crux reported today that at the Vatican, Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Theodore McCarrick from the College of Cardinals. [read post]
28 Jul 2018, 9:25 am by Tom Smith
Up to this point in time, Francis and his predecessors have applied only stopgap measures largely designed to control the fallout of sexual abuse. [read post]
28 Jul 2018, 9:23 am by Tom Smith
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of a prominent US cardinal accused of sexually assaulting a teenager nearly 50 years ago.Theodore McCarrick, 88, a former Archbishop of Washington, must also carry out "penance and prayer" pending a canonical trial, the Vatican said.Last month US Church officials said the allegations were credible. [read post]
25 Jul 2018, 7:09 pm by William D. Kickham, Esq.
These days, the former governor is visibly hunched over, almost similar to the way the late Pope John Paul II was, who suffered from severe arthritis in his neck. [read post]
25 Jul 2018, 8:14 am by Lawrenz Fares
Also Monday Duterte made confrontational statements [Newsweek report] towards his critics, including UN human rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, Pope Francis and former US president Barack Obama [official profiles] before a joint session of the Philippine Congress. [read post]
23 Jul 2018, 4:23 am by Edith Roberts
” At In These Times, James Gray Pope and others look at approaches to “rebuilding labor after the Supreme Court’s … ruling” in Janus v. [read post]
20 Jul 2018, 2:18 pm by Jon Levitan
Kentucky Hearings,” published in Volume 99 of the Yale Law Journal, 1989 “The President and the Independent Counsel,” published in Volume 86 of the Georgetown Law Journal, 1997 “Separation of Powers During the Forty-Fourth Presidency and Beyond,” published in Volume 93 of the Minnesota Law Review, 2008 “War, Terror, and the Federal Courts, Ten Years After 9/11,” Published in Volume 61, Issue 5, of the American University Law Review, 2012 (subscription… [read post]