Fr. George W. Rutler: U.S. Bishops Approve the Pope’s Capital Punishment Ban

By Fr. George W. Rutler, Crisis Magazine, June 26, 2019

Sæva indignatio. Few writers in the history of English letters could express “savage indignation” at human folly as did Jonathan Swift who wrote those words for his own epitaph. Our times give ample opportunity to empathize with him, and that is never more so than when clerics get together in large numbers.

Bishops have many daunting responsibilities and, if they are reasonable, they are not fleet of foot to beat a path to synods and conferences and plenary sessions and other impositions on their august office. Their patience in such meetings is exemplary, and so lesser souls should be patient with them when they sometimes fail to match up to Athanasius or Borromeo….Read entire article here:  crisismagazine.com/2019/u-s-bishops-approve-the-popes-capital-punishment-ban