Serving Christ and Connecting Catholics in Western North Carolina
What we think is the right road
Everybody knows that capital punishment violates the right to life, that it’s an affront to human dignity, that it erodes respect for human life, that it’s motivated by vengeance, that it does not deter, that it removes the possibility of reform, that the state has no right to inflict the death penalty, and that innocent people often receive the death penalty.
At the end of the year 404, in the seventh month of his exile in the mountains of Armenia, the deposed Archbishop John of Constantinople chastised his disciple Olympia because she had fallen into despondency.