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Whether human dignity is upheld if we allow no executions remains an open question. As Plato intimated, a case for the execution of certain criminals

Dispatch from the Dead Letter Office 05/18/2021 at 9:34 PM Posted by Kevin Edward White THE MCCARRICK REPORT HOLDS NO ONE ACCOUNTABLE By Pieter Vree, New Oxford Review, May 2021 In November 2020 the Vatican released its long-anticipated “Report on the Holy See’s Institutional Knowledge and Decision-Making Related to Former Cardinal Theodore Edgar McCarrick.” It was immediately evident that something screwy was afoot. Consider the timing. Vatican insiders said the report had been completed some six months earlier and was gathering dust on Pope Francis’s desk through the spring, s...

01/01/2021 at 3:57 PM Posted by Kevin Edward White Pope Francis has made a bad deal with the Chinese government. The agreement reached with mainland authorities is not helping Catholics and other Christians as much as even its architects’ attenuated hopes warranted. It has hamstrung the Church and muted her moral witness at a crucial time. By Christopher R. Altieri for The Editors, Catholic Herald, January 1, 2021 Ever since September of 2018, when the Holy See announced its provisional agreement with the Chinese government on the appointment of bishops, critics of the arrangement hav...