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Catholics and capital punishment: Do Pope Francis’s teachings matter in policy preferences?
Punishment & Society ( IF 2.289 ) Pub Date : 2021-04-06 , DOI: 10.1177/1462474521998879
Francis T Cullen 1 , Amanda Graham 2 , Kellie R Hannan , Alexander L Burton 1 , Leah C Butler 3 , Velmer S Burton 4
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In the United States, Catholics make up more than 50 million members of the adult population, or about one in five Americans. It is unclear whether their religious affiliation shapes Catholics’ views on public policy issues, ranging from the legality of abortion to criminal justice practices. Capital punishment is especially salient, given that Pope Francis announced in 2018—as official Catholic Church teaching—that the death penalty is “inadmissible” under all circumstances. Based on two national surveys, the current project explores Catholics’ support for state executions before (2017) and after (2019) the Pope’s momentous change in the church’s Catechism. At present, little evidence exists that Pope Francis’s doctrinal reform has impacted Catholics, a majority of whom—like Americans generally—continue to favor the death penalty for murderers. Data from our additional 2020 MTurk survey show that only 17.0% of Catholic respondents could correctly identify the Church’s position on capital punishment. Despite these results, Pope Francis’s teachings provide Catholic leaders and activists with a compelling rationale for opposing the death penalty and holding Catholic public officials accountable for espousing offenders’ execution. Further, for the next generation of Catholics, instruction in the inadmissibility of capital punishment, as part of the Church’s consistent ethic of life, will be integral to their religious training.



中文翻译:

天主教徒和死刑:弗朗西斯教皇的教in对政策优惠有影响吗?

在美国,天主教徒占成年人口的5000万以上,即大约五分之一的美国人。目前尚不清楚他们的宗教信仰是否会影响天主教徒在从堕胎的合法性到刑事司法实践等公共政策问题上的观点。考虑到教皇方济各在2018年(天主教会的官方教导)宣布死刑在任何情况下都是“不可容忍的”,因此死刑尤为突出。根据两项全国性调查,当前项目探讨了天主教徒对教宗在天主教会的重大改变之前(2017年)和之后(2019年)之后国家处决的支持。目前,几乎没有证据表明教皇方济各的教义改革已经影响了天主教徒,其中大多数人(像美国人一样)继续主张对杀人犯处以死刑。来自我们2020年MTurk附加调查的数据显示,只有17.0%的天主教受访者可以正确确定教会在死刑方面的立场。尽管取得了这些结果,但弗朗西斯教皇的教义为天主教领袖和激进主义者提供了令人信服的理由,他们反对死刑,并要求天主教公职人员追究罪犯的死刑责任。此外,对于下一代的天主教徒来说,作为教会一贯的生活伦理的一部分,关于不接受死刑的指示将成为其宗教培训的组成部分。弗朗西斯教皇的教义为天主教领袖和激进主义者提供了令人信服的理由,他们反对死刑,并要求天主教公职人员追究罪犯的死刑责任。此外,对于下一代的天主教徒来说,作为教会一贯的生活伦理的一部分,关于不接受死刑的指示将成为其宗教培训的组成部分。弗朗西斯教皇的教义为天主教领袖和激进主义者提供了令人信服的理由,他们反对死刑,并要求天主教公职人员追究罪犯的死刑责任。此外,对于下一代的天主教徒来说,作为教会一贯的生活伦理的一部分,关于不接受死刑的指示将成为其宗教培训的组成部分。

更新日期:2021-04-06
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