/lit/ - Literature

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>When we were renovating this cigar lounge, we had five layers of shag carpet and tile over these beautiful wooden floors, and an awful drop ceiling.
>*lights cigar*
>And when we explain this to people, they say, "Who would do that?" And my answer is, "The same people who invented liturgical abuse."

https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/the-church-and-capital-punishment

>I pointed out to John what too many Catholics simply do not know: The death penalty has always been, and always will be, upheld as a legitimate and potentially just punishment in Catholic Tradition as well as in Scripture.
>This teaching cannot change.
>This teaching cannot change.
>This teaching cannot change.

Catechism of the Catholic Church 2020 revision:

>Consequently, the Church teaches, in the light of the Gospel, that “the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person”, and she works with determination for its abolition worldwide.