Discussion on the issue of Catholic teaching on capital punishment is reoccurring (here and here). What the Catechism says about this is quite straightforward and easy to understand.
Assuming that the guilty party's identity and responsibility have been fully determined, the traditional teaching of the Church does not exclude recourse to the death penalty, if this [...]

 The discussion between Mark Shea and Jimmy Akin on the subject of torture continues to go astray. I think Akin has not yet seen that his approach to intrinsic evils in fact ends up with them being subjective — in a way that does not line up with Catholic teaching.
Akin claims that there is an element [...]