The Mercy That Kills: A Ministry of Mercy at an Execution Chamber
The Pillar portal reports on an interview with Fr. Estevan Wetzel, who celebrated the “Mass” and accompanied a Catholic death row inmate, Leroy McGill, to his execution by lethal injection. The interview is filled with sentiments of “mercy,” “solidarity,” and “dignity,” but it completely ignores the eternal state of the soul and the absolute necessity of the true Catholic Church for salvation. This is a textbook example of the modernist “Gospel of Man” — a naturalistic humanism dressed in liturgical vestments, which offers psychological comfort while the soul is sent to its eternal reward without the supernatural certainties of true grace.
