Aug 9, 2018
What happens to the authority of the modern state when it definitively leaves behind the death penalty?
Editor’s note: This interview was originally posted on July 19, 2017.
Pope Francis’s political, social, and economic thinking has created great consternation, but he has also roused tremendous interest of Catholics and those outside the Catholic Church in his pontificate. Daniel Mahoney has written widely about Pope Francis and joins this edition of Liberty Law Talk to discuss what he thinks are the keys to understanding the current head of the Roman Catholic Church.
What happens to the authority of the modern state when it definitively leaves behind the death penalty?