A highly recommended book that sheds
the patient, clear light of reason on the issue of capital punishment. Every U.S. bishop should read it…
In recent years, position statements
and lobbying efforts of the USCCB have ranged across a wide variety of
prudential issues, from global warming and tax policy to immigration and the
death penalty.
There are many policy approaches to
such issues that might conform to the precepts of legitimate Catholic social
teaching, so Lumen
Gentium, the Dogmatic Constitution on the
Catholic Church, requires that action on in this area be left to the laity.
