Where justice and mercy meet  Catholic opposition to the death penalty /  [electronic resource] : 
edited by Vicki Schieber, Trudy D. Conway, and David Matzko McCarthy. 
 - Collegeville, Minnesota :  Liturgical Press,  [2013] 
 - 1 online resource (xxi, 225 pages) :  illustrations 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>pt. 1. The death penalty today. Facing the truth -- The appearances and realities of lethal injection / Kim Philip Hansen -- Seeing ourselves from an international perspective -- An international perspective on the death penalty / Amanda Beal -- Trying to get it right -- Rethinking the death penalty / Trudy D. Conway -- The power of stories -- Stirring hearts and minds / Kurt Blaugher -- pt. 2. A Christian rethinking of the death penalty. Forgiveness and healing -- The Eucharist : forgiveness and personhood / Rodica Stoicoiu -- Jesus Christ and sacrifice -- Jesus Christ as scapegoat : Christology, sacrifice, and the death penalty / David Cloutier -- Hebrew Scriptures : "an eye for an eye" -- Biblical principles : Mosaic law / Richard Buck -- The Bible and the church -- WWJD? Jesus, the death penalty, and US Catholics / Mary Katherine Birge, SSJ -- pt. 3. Church teachings on capital punishment. The Catholic moral tradition -- The ancient, medieval and early modern views / E. Christian Brugger -- The church today -- The church and capital punishment in the modern period / E. Christian Brugger -- The Catechism in historical perspective -- The catechetical tradition / Msgr. Stuart W. Swetland -- The death penalty in the catechetical tradition -- The Gospel of life / Msgr. Stuart W. Swetland -- pt. 4. The least of these. Money matters -- The economics of the death penalty / Alejandro Cañadas and John Schwenkler -- A legacy of race -- The death penalty and race / Timothy W. Wolfe -- Vulnerabilities and risks -- People with disabilities and the death penalty / Thomas H. Powell, Robert Perske, Patricia A. Lester, and Dominique L. Nguyen -- A matter of discipleship -- The heart of our faith / Fr. James Donohue, CR. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0814635334 9780814635339 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label>CC0C67E2-A7D7-42D1-9416-793DAC918393  OverDrive, Inc.  http://www.overdrive.com 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Capital punishment--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.<br/>Capital punishment--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.<br/>RELIGION / Christian Life / Social Issues<br/>RELIGION / Christianity / General
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HV8698  / .W474 2013eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>261.8/3366