US Catholics’ Death Penalty Support Exposes Neo-Church’s Doctrinal Collapse
The EWTN News portal reports that 55% of U.S. Catholic voters support capital punishment for convicted murderers despite the 2018 revision to the Compendium of Errors (falsely termed “Catechism”) declaring it “inadmissible.” The survey reveals weekly Mass attendees show marginally higher opposition (26%) than sporadic attendees (16%), while 25% remain uncertain. Sister Helen Prejean claims the revised text reflects Gospel values, while Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy of the “Catholic” Mobilizing Network laments insufficient catechesis on this “pro-life issue,” invoking “Popes” John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and “Leo XIV” as abolitionists.
Doctrinal Subversion Through Linguistic Manipulation
The article’s central deceit lies in presenting the death penalty as fundamentally opposed to human dignity – a modernist inversion of Catholic truth. The true Catechism of St. Pius X explicitly taught: “The power of life and death is permitted to certain civil magistrates because theirs is the responsibility under law to punish the guilty and protect the innocent” (Catechism of St. Pius X, The Fifth Commandment). Pope Pius XII in Address to Catholic Jurists (1952) confirmed: “Even in the case of the death penalty the State does not dispose of the individual’s right to life. Rather public authority limits itself to depriving the offender of the good of life in expiation for his guilt when already he has deprived himself of the right to life.”
The 2018 revision constitutes doctrinal vandalism, replacing immutable principles with sentimental humanitarianism. As Quas Primas declares: “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony” (Pius XI, 1925). The conciliar sect’s abolitionist stance constitutes rebellion against Christ’s Social Kingship by denying the State’s God-given authority to punish grave crimes.
Naturalism Masquerading as Mercy
Sister Prejean’s assertion that executions violate “human dignity” exposes the neo-church’s anthropocentric heresy. The Syllabus of Errors condemns the proposition that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Pius IX, Error 55). By reducing justice to therapeutic rehabilitation, the conciliar sect embraces Rousseau’s error that “man is naturally good” – condemned by Pius VI in Auctorem Fidei (1794).
Vaillancourt Murphy’s lament about Catholics disregarding “Church teaching” ironically demonstrates the neo-church’s self-inflicted irrelevance. When “bishops” abandon their duty to condemn abortion and heresy while obsessing over climate change and immigration, why should the laity respect their sudden concern for murderers’ “dignity”? The Lamentabili Sane condemns precisely this selective morality: “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him” (St. Pius X, Error 58).
Catechetical Bankruptcy of the Conciliar Sect
The 25% “unsure” respondents epitomize the fruits of fifty years of deliberate doctrinal sabotage. The authentic Catechism of the Council of Trent taught: “The just use of this power, far from involving the crime of murder, is an act of paramount obedience to the commandment which prohibits murder.” Modernists replaced this clarity with equivocal phrases like “dignity” and “inadmissible” – intentionally vague terms enabling perpetual hermeneutical manipulation.
When “Pope” Leo XIV claims abolition reflects “Gospel values,” he inverts the Divine Justice embodied in Christ driving moneychangers from the Temple (John 2:15) and affirming civil authority’s sword-bearing role (Romans 13:4). As St. Augustine taught: “The same Divine Law which forbids the killing of a human being allows certain exceptions, as when God authorizes killing by a general law or when He gives an explicit commission to an individual for a limited time” (City of God, Book I, Chapter 21).
Conclusion: Restoring Justice Through Christ the King
This survey ultimately reveals not Catholic intransigence, but the conciliar sect’s catastrophic failure to transmit immutable doctrine. The death penalty debate becomes moot when societies reject the Social Reign of Christ the King. As Pius XI warned: “When once men recognize… that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony” (Quas Primas). Until the Roman Catholic Church’s restoration, such polls merely measure apostasy’s depth within the occupied Vatican’s counterfeit sect.
Source:
Poll: Majority of U.S. Catholics support death penalty despite Catechism (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 11.12.2025