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What is the Catholic Church's position on the death penalty? How and why has it changed through the ages? Tracing the history of this thorny moral issue, Brugger offers a detailed exegesis of the Church's account of its morality as formulated in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

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""Capital Punishment and Roman Catholic Moral Tradition is an impressive work of scholarship. It could easily become the leading treatise on its subject. It provides a valuable resource for scholars in theology, history, philosophy, and political science, as well as for Catholics and others interested in the history and morality of the death penalty in Western thought.""

Capital Punishment and Roman Catholic Moral Tradition is an impressive work of scholarship. It could easily become the leading treatise on its subject. It provides a valuable resource for scholars in theology, history, philosophy, and political science, as well as for Catholics and others interested in the history and morality of the death penalty in Western thought.

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E. Christian Brugger is the J. Francis Cardinal Stafford Professor of Moral Theology at St. John Vianney Theological Seminary.

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