Across the transom just now.  Please distribute.

PRAY FOR THIS PRIEST, HIS CONFRERES, SUPERIORS, and ALL HOLY PRIESTS.

Dear Parishioner,

You may have read that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has recently announced the the Catechism of the Catholic Church will be amended to teach that the Death Penalty, i.e. the judicial condemnation of an evil-doer to death, by competent authority, is now to be considered always inadmissible.

Leaving aside any discussion of particulars, and making reference only to the general principle, such a position runs contrary to the natural law and constant teaching of the Church.

The Holy See is apparently in error, and in my view, no Catholic should feel himself bound to the Catechism in this regard.

Please pray for the Pope and the bishops.

Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us.

The Good Shepherd, Cristóbal García Salmerón, circa ARSH 1640. /////  The text says, “Ego Sum Pastor Bonus et cognósco oves meas, et cognóscunt me meæ. //// I Am the Good Shepherd; and I know mine, and mine know Me.