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Someone over on pro-death penalty philosopher Dr. Ed Feser\u2019s blog stated: \u201cChrist might have said: \u2018while it is morally licit in principle to use the death penalty, I tell you that you must not use it.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

Wouldn\u2019t the situation with the woman caught in adultery be that?:<\/p>\n

John 8:3-11<\/strong> (RSV)\u00a0The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst\u00a0\u00a0[4] they said to him, \u201cTeacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery.\u00a0[5] Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such. What do you say about her?\u201d\u00a0[6] This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground.\u00a0[7] And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, \u201cLet him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.\u201d\u00a0[8] And once more he bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground.\u00a0\u00a0[9] But when they heard it, they went away, one by one, beginning with the eldest, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.\u00a0[10] Jesus looked up and said to her, \u201cWoman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?\u201d\u00a0[11] She said, \u201cNo one, Lord.\u201d And Jesus said, \u201cNeither do I condemn you; go, and do not sin again.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jesus didn\u2019t say, \u201cyou mustn\u2019t stone anyone anymore for adultery because it\u2019s always been wrong\u201d or \u201cthe Law is now null and void\u201d (He said the opposite about that<\/em>\u00a0in the Sermon on the Mount).<\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t deny its validity at all. What He did was take the principle involved [the felt \u201ctension\u201d between love and justice] far deeper, into the new covenant realm of the primacy of mercy and grace (the \u201cweightier elements\u201d of the Law: Matthew 23:23): \u201cHe who is without sin, cast the first stone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jesus is using typically Hebraic exaggeration \/ hyperbole, as He very often did, but to me the bottom-line point is what I have highlighted: He is going to the very roots of the deepest meanings of the law, as in Matthew 23:23-28:<\/p>\n

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law, justice and mercy and faith; these you ought to have done, without neglecting the others. [24] You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel! [25] \u201cWoe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you cleanse the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside they are full of extortion and rapacity. [26] You blind Pharisee! first cleanse the inside of the cup and of the plate, that the outside also may be clean. [27] \u201cWoe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within they are full of dead men\u2019s bones and all uncleanness. [28] So you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but within you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. (RSV)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is what I see recent popes doing with regard to the death penalty. They are highlighting and making central the \u201cweightier matters\u201d of the Law: \u201cjustice and mercy and faith.\u201d Pope Francis has simply made it more definitive today<\/a> than it has been before.<\/p>\n

The passage certainly seems (at least prima facie<\/em>) more supportive of the anti-death penalty position than the pro-death penalty view, and it is so without asserting that the death penalty is intrinsically immoral.\u00a0\u201cChange\u201d in Church teaching in this instance means \u201cfurther development.\u201d Pope Francis is not<\/em> saying it is intrinsically wrong<\/em>. But he\u2019s saying that in our time \u2014 given our means to detain criminals today \u2014 there is no situation in which it is admissible<\/em>.<\/p>\n

To declare capital punishment intrinsically or inherently immoral, on the other hand, would amount to pacifism and a denial of just war, and that isn\u2019t the position of the Church. Nothing has changed in that respect. The only change has been a position (since at least Pope St. John Paul II and Evangelium Vitae<\/em>) of almost total<\/em> opposition to the death penalty, to a complete<\/em> opposition in all cases (now laid out in the Catechism and Pope Francis\u2019 further explanation).<\/p>\n

Romans 13:4 (see my treatment of it below) needs to be exegeted properly, since (I believe) it is the primary proof offered of the death penalty in the New Testament. A growing consensus of scholarly exegetes are now saying that it is not about capital punishment at all, but about taxation and a possible insurrection regarding same.<\/p>\n

See additional vigorous Facebook discussion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Related articles:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Capital Punishment: I\u2019ve Changed My Mind<\/a><\/div>\n
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Genesis 9:6 & Capital Punishment (Contra Ed Feser)<\/a><\/div>\n
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Romans 13:4\u00a0& Capital Punishment (Contra Ed Feser)<\/a><\/div>\n
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Dr. Fastiggi Replies to Dr. Feser on Capital Punishment<\/a><\/div>\n
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Photo credit:<\/strong> 1553 engraving by\u00a0Heinrich Aldegrever\u00a0(1502\u20131555, 1558<\/sup>\u00a0or 1561) in the book\u00a0La Guillotine en 1793<\/i>\u00a0by H. Fleischmann (1908)<\/span> [public domain \/ Wikipedia: French edition<\/a>]<\/div>\n
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Someone over on pro-death penalty philosopher Dr. Ed Feser\u2019s blog stated: \u201cChrist might have said: \u2018while it is morally licit in principle to use the death penalty, I tell you that you must not use it.\u2019 \u201d Wouldn\u2019t the situation with the woman caught in adultery be that?: John 8:3-11 (RSV)\u00a0The scribes and the Pharisees […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2331,"featured_media":21912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[4482,233,816,817,2419,6072],"class_list":["post-21909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-issues","tag-benedict-xvi","tag-capital-punishment","tag-death-penalty","tag-execution","tag-john-paul-ii","tag-pope-francis-capital-punishment"],"yoast_head":"\nJesus, the Death Penalty, & the Adulterous Woman<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Jesus seems to 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