Scalia and the death penalty

I agree completely with Eduardo's recent post. I may not have made that clear when I briefly described Bob Fastiggi's article on this issue. Fastiggi's article is a critique of Justice Scalia's approach to this issue. Fastiggi takes the view (and I agree with this) that the teachings on the death penalty in EV and the revised Catechism are (although not definitively proclaimed) deserving the treatment set forth in Lumen Gentium 25--the religious submission of intellect and will. This requires more than respectful consideration. Charlie Rice, who wrote the entry on the death penalty for the Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought I recently co-edited, is here a better model than Justice Scalia. After EV and the revised Catechism were issued, Charlie changed his view on this topic.

Richard M.