Barry Levis
ContributorBarry Levis is professor emeritus of history, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, and a congregant of The Church of the Good Shepherd (Episcopal), Rosemont, Pennsylvania.
Debates
September 25, 2018
Capital Punishment: A Religious Socialist Perspective
Recently, Pope Francis altered the Catholic Catechism’s teaching on capital punishment to denounce without exception any form of execution. The Roman Catholic Church now joins many other Christian denominations—Episcopal, Presbyterians, Methodists, Quaker, Mennonites, United Church of Christ, Unitarians, American Baptists, to name a few—in condemning the practice.