“Go to hell,” our President-elect, Donald Trump, wrote on Truth Social to the death row prisoners whose sentences President Biden recently commuted. Trump wrote this on Christmas Day. Christians, who have been arguing about Trump since his campaign of 2016, have received a new expression of his theology.
Pope St. John Paul II became the first pope to call for the abolition of the death penalty in his encyclical, Evangelium Vitae, or The Gospel of Life, published on the Feast of the Annunciation, March 25, 1995. The practice was not compatible with human dignity, which not even a murderer loses, he taught.
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