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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This question misunderstands the nature of the Catholic faith.  The Pope is only considered infallible in very specific matters of church doctrine.  His random thoughts about US politics are not that and hold no extra weight.

—I’m not Catholic, but I do have a basic education[/quote]

This is the correct answer. [/quote]

Yup. And abortion is moral doctrine, the Pope can't change the teaching on that even if he wanted. Immigration is considered prudential policy and his musings on it have no authority over policymakers. [/quote]

Please explain the logic or lack thereof on why the Catholic Bishops do not actively oppose the death penalty in the same way that they oppose abortion.  No non-Catholic gives a sh-t about the Catholic doctrine on the differences, as those are religious views (to which Catholics are entitled to hold).  The real difference is abortion issues effects the mother and the fetus and is a personal decision.  The death penalty is a state decision.[/quote]

Catholics are against the death penalty.[/quote]

+1 The Catholic Church is firm on its stance against the death penalty. Honestly, why do people who don’t have the first idea about Catholicism keep posting?[/quote]

Such as yourself?
From the Catechism of the Catholic Church:

"Preserving the common good of society requires rendering the aggressor unable to inflict harm. For this reason the traditional teaching of the Church has acknowledged as well-founded the right and duty of legitimate public authority to punish malefactors by means of penalties commensurate with the gravity of the crime, not excluding, in cases of extreme gravity, the death penalty."[/quote]

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