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  2. Catholic Church and capital punishment - Wikipedia

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    Dulles argues that the Church teaches that punishments, including the death penalty, may be levied for four reasons: [22] Rehabilitation – The sentence of death can and sometimes does move the condemned person to repentance and conversion. The death penalty may be a way of achieving the criminal's reconciliation with God.

  3. List of films condemned by the Legion of Decency - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of films condemned by the National Legion of Decency, a United States Catholic organization. The National Legion of Decency was established in 1933 and reorganized in 1965 as the National Catholic Office for Motion Pictures (NCOMP). Under each of these names, it rated films according to their suitability for viewing, assigning a ...

  4. Purgatory - Wikipedia

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    The Catholic Church holds that "all who die in God's grace and friendship but still imperfectly purified" undergo a process of purification after death, which the church calls purgatory, "so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven".

  5. Buy your way to Heaven! The Catholic Church brings back ...

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    The Catholic Church had technically banned the practice of selling indulgences as long ago as 1567. As the Times points out, a monetary donation wouldn't go amiss toward earning an indulgence.

  6. Judgment (1990 film) - Wikipedia

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    The sexual abuse of minors by priests is the delicate issue to be handled by Peter and Emmeline Guitry, devout Catholics in a small town in Louisiana whose lives are shattered when their son Robbie reveals that he has been sexually abused by their priest, Father Frank Aubert.

  7. Helen Prejean - Wikipedia

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    Helen Prejean CSJ (/ p r eɪ ˈ ʒ ɑː n / pray-ZHAHN; [1] born April 21, 1939) is a Catholic religious sister and a leading American advocate for the abolition of the death penalty. She is known for her best-selling book, Dead Man Walking (1993), based on her experiences with two convicts on death row for whom she served as spiritual adviser ...

  8. Fact-checking 'Conclave': How accurate is the pope movie ...

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    Based on a Robert Harris novel, the thriller "Conclave," starring Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci, re-creates the secret process of electing a pope.

  9. Cillian Murphy takes on Catholic Church secrets in new movie ...

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    With the Catholic Church, there's always this sense that if you're silent, you're complicit." Cillian Murphy confers with director Tim Mielants on the set of "Small Things Like These."