Pope Francis changes Catholic church teaching on death penalty, declaring it now 'inadmissable' in all cases. The Vatican said Thursday that Pope Francis has approved a change to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the official compilation of church teaching, that the death penalty "Is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person." Previously, the catechism said the church didn’t exclude the use of capital punishment “if this is the only possible way of effectively defending human lives against the unjust aggressor.” Ref. USAToday.
Pope Francis Rewrites Catholicism … and the Bible
Last week, the Vatican announced that Pope. Francis had changed the Catholic catechism. After 2,000 years of teaching that a moral use of capital punishment for murder is consistent with Catholic teaching, the pope announced that the catechism, the church fathers and St. Thomas Aquinas, among the… Source 6e.