{"id":7199,"date":"2022-09-01T15:35:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T19:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/news\/news-2\/popes-september-prayer-intention-abolition-death-penalty\/"},"modified":"2022-09-01T15:35:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T19:35:43","slug":"popes-september-prayer-intention-abolition-death-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/news\/news-2\/popes-september-prayer-intention-abolition-death-penalty\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope\u2019s September prayer intention: For abolition of the death penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/en\/pope\/news\/2022-08\/pope-s-september-prayer-intention-for-an-end-to-death-penalty.html\"><strong><em>Source<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\"><strong>By Vatican News staff reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">\u201cEach day, there is a growing \u2018NO\u2019 to the death penalty around the world,\u201d says Pope Francis in the video released on Wednesday announcing his prayer intention for September. \u201cFor the Church, this is a sign of hope.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">In The Pope Video, produced by the Pope&#8217;s Worldwide Prayer Network, the Holy Father maintains that the death penalty is not necessary \u201cfrom a legal point of view.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">He argues that \u201csociety can effectively repress crime without definitively depriving offenders of the possibility of redeeming themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">He adds that there must be \u201ca window of hope\u201d in every legal sentence. Capital punishment, he says, \u201coffers no justice to victims, but rather encourages revenge. And it prevents any possibility of undoing a possible miscarriage of justice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\"><strong>Always possible to repent<\/strong><br \/>\nPope Francis goes on to say that the death penalty is \u201cmorally inadmissible\u201d because it destroys life, and insists that \u201cup to the very last moment, a person can convert and change.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">The Pope argues further that \u201cin the light of the Gospel, the death penalty is unacceptable, because the commandment \u2018Thou shalt not kill\u2019 refers to both the innocent and the guilty.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Pope Francis concludes his message with an appeal for all people of goodwill to mobilize for the abolition of the death penalty throughout the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"text-align-center\"><em>\u201cLet us pray that the death penalty, which attacks the dignity of the human person, may be legally abolished in every country.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/j7n3tbprV-4\"><strong><em>Watch video<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source By Vatican News staff reporter \u201cEach day, there is a growing \u2018NO\u2019 to the death penalty around the world,\u201d&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7198,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nouvelle"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}