I am about to speak ill of the dead.
I conferred with my Catholic intellectual friend Sunday and he informed me that according to Church teaching, a Roman Catholic is not committing a sin praying for the death of a person if by continuing to live that person poses a real threat to a significant number of innocent lives.
We would not have been committing a sin by praying for Hitler’s death in 1934, for example.
Obviously many of my readers do not share my Faith nor would I expect them to do so.
But I did intend this to be a riposte to the idea that one should never speak ill of the dead. If you are not committing a sinful act according to the Church (my moral compass) by praying for the death of a proponent of the mass death of innocents on earth, then you logically are not committing a sinful or distasteful act speaking ill of the recently departed.
Many of the negative reactions to Lindsey Graham and his death center on the assumption that he was homosexual. And they resulted in rude suggestions about his lifestyle. Low hanging fruit, so to speak.
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Source:: Ron Paul Institute