This second edition of E. Christian Brugger’s classic work Capital Punishment and Roman Catholic Moral Tradition traces the doctrinal path the Church has taken over the centuries to its present ...

Mainly among clergymen is the capital-punishment issue argued on moral-religious grounds. The Roman Catholic Church defends society’s right to take a criminal’s life as an act of collective ...

(RNS) — Many people believe that excommunication is the Catholic Church’s equivalent of capital punishment — the worst punishment that the church can impose on a believer. Some even see it ...