I have a new piece up over at Public Discourse responding to a recent critique of capital punishment by Christopher Tollefsen. (In earlier posts I have defended the legitimacy in principle of capital punishment from the point of view of traditional natural law theory and Catholic moral theology. In this post I criticize the failure of some churchmen to present the entirety of Catholic teaching on this subject, and to convey thereby the false impression that the Church’s attitude toward capital punishment is “liberal.” In this post, I criticize an earlier piece by Tollefsen.)
