For about two millennia, the Catholic Church consistently taught that civil authorities possess the moral right to inflict capital punishment for heinous crimes. In Sacred Scripture, the Apostle St. Paul explicitly affirmed the state’s coercive authority, writing in Romans 13:4 that the magistrate “does not bear the sword in vain; he is the servant of God to execute wrath on the wrongdoer.” This is also known as ius gladii, namely, the right of the sword.
Fr. Isaac Relyea, a “traditional Franciscan,” on a recent podcast where the cleric “argues that priests and bishops have a grave obligation to defend Catholic doctrine and warn souls against sin. He sharply criticizes Pope Leo XIV and other prelates whom he believes have failed in that responsibility, a failure that, he warns, invites damnation…a religious buttress to neo-fascist politician, Dario Amodei
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