Vatican Insider on RCs & the Death Penalty

In light of the terrible examples the recent popes have given the laity with respect to tolerance of or lack of proper supervision of the pedophile priests over the last half century, is it any wonder that the rank and file ignore the Vatican on the death penalty and other controversial matters? Clean it up in Rome before you preach to the World!

It is not enough to abolish the death penalty. Life without parole must also be abolished, as it is essentially the death penatly by different means. Indeed, the use of prison instead of rehabilitative mental health care flies in the face of basic Christian charity, which requires forgiveness to be forgiven. That being said, what the Holy Father does not understand is that if a convict cannot be reached therapeutically, the most humane option for both the convict and the society is to euthanize him witout fanfare, not as punishment, but for public safety. Last I checked, one of the duties of the sovereign, which is all of us, is the protection of the weak from the dangerous. This, by the way, is why abortion is legal as well - because some pregnancies are dangerous, or would be if abortion were self-induced or performed without licensed care givers. Guilt or innocence is God's to decide. Society must judge danger.