教皇利奥十四世宣布死刑“不可接受”。他在世界反死刑日发布了一篇社交媒体帖子，而他的祖国美国则宣布计划对一次枪决执行进行直播。
Pope Leo XIV has declared capital punishment "inadmissible.”He has penned a social media post for the World Day Against the Death Penalty, as his native United States announced plans to livestream an execution by firing squad.
尼科尔·温菲尔德 罗马 — 教皇利奥十四世周六宣布死刑“不可接受”，以此纪念世界反死刑日，而他的祖国美国则宣布计划对一次枪决执行进行直播。他在X平台的一篇帖子中引用了教皇方济各推出的关于死刑的修订天主教教义，认为死刑侵犯了人类固有的尊严。“善善可以得到维护，正义的要求也能得到满足，而无需诉诸死刑。”
NICOLE WINFIELD ROME — Pope Leo XIV on Saturday declared capital punishment ''inadmissible” as he marked the World Day Against the Death Penalty and his native United States announced plans to livestream an execution by firing squad In a post on X, the American pope quoted the revised Catholic teaching on capital punishment ushered in by Pope Francis that the death penalty attacks the inherent dignity of a human being“The common good can be safeguarded and the requirements of justice can be met without recourse to capital punishment,” read the post under Leo’s official handle, @Pontifex.
该帖子在教皇利奥十四世的官方账号@Pontifex下写道。“已经发展出有效的拘留系统，既能保护公民，又不会完全剥夺罪犯获得救赎的可能性。”该帖子以话题#结束。美国国防部周四宣布，将对尼达尔·马利克·哈桑的枪决执行进行直播，哈桑因2009年在福德胡德军事基地的枪击事件被定罪。哈桑原定于12月3日在福德胡德被执行死刑，他被判定犯有杀害13人、致32人受伤的罪行。
“Effective systems of detention have been developed that protect citizens while at the same time do not completely deprive those who are guilty of the possibility of redemption.”The post ended with the hashtag The U.S. Defense Department announced Thursday that the firing squad execution of Nidal Malik Hasan convicted of a 2009 shooting at the Fort Hood military base, will be livestreamed. Hasan, scheduled to be executed at Fort Hood on Dec. 3, was convicted of killing 13 people and wounding 32 others.
利奥并未具体提及此次计划中的枪决执行，也没有提及此前田纳西州一次出现失误的死刑注射事件——该事件在美国重新点燃了关于死刑的争论。周六是世界反死刑日，教皇的官方社交媒体账号通常会在这一天发布纪念性信息。
Leo didn’t refer specifically to the planned execution, or the botched lethal injection in Tennessee earlier that has revived debate over the death penalty in the United States. Saturday is World Day Against the Death Penalty, and it is common for the pope’s official social media accounts to post messages marking such commemorations.
但利奥的帖子是在他的副手、梵蒂冈国务卿皮耶特罗·帕罗林枢机主教明确表示计划中的美国公开处决“不可接受”仅几小时后发布的。
But Leo’s post came just hours after his top deputy, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican secretary of state, said explicitly that the planned U.S. public execution was “unacceptable.”
教皇方济各宣布死刑“不可接受” 教皇方济各于2018年修订了天主教会的官方教义，宣布死刑在任何情况下都“不可接受”。
Pope Francis declared capital punishment ‘inadmissible’ Pope Francis in 2018 amended official Catholic teaching to declare capital punishment “inadmissible” in all circumstances.
此前，《天主教教理》——天主教会的官方教义汇编——曾表示，教会并不排除诉诸死刑的可能，“如果这是有效抵御不义侵略者、保护人类生命的唯一途径。”历任教皇曾维持这一立场，尽管若望·保禄二世开始呼吁结束死刑实践，并强调有罪的人与无罪的人一样，都值得尊严。
Previously, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the official compendium of church teaching, said the church didn’t exclude recourse to capital punishment “if this is the only possible way of effectively defending human lives against the unjust aggressor.”Past popes had upheld that position, though St. John Paul II began urging an end to the practice and stressed that guilty people were just as deserving of dignity as innocent ones.
正如方济各之前所做的那样，利奥也将探访监狱作为其教皇访问的重要部分，旨在向囚犯传递希望的信息，强调他们固有的尊严——上帝爱他们，并且总有救赎的机会。
Like Francis before him, Leo has made visiting prisons a key part of his papal travel in a bid to give a message of hope to inmates and underscore their inherent dignity, that God loves them and that there is always a chance for redemption.
“如果你们中有人害怕被所有人遗忘，请知道，上帝永不会抛弃你们，而教会将永远站在你们身旁。”利奥在四月份访问赤道几内亚 notorious Bata 监狱期间对囚犯如是说。利奥将在即将到来的拉美之行中访问布宜诺斯艾利斯的一所监狱。
“If any of you fear being abandoned by everyone, know that God will never abandon you, and that the church will stand by your side,” Leo told inmates at the notorious Bata prison in Equatorial Guinea during his visit in April. Leo is to visit a prison in Buenos Aires during his upcoming tour through Latin America.
专门针对美国，梵蒂冈国务卿皮耶特罗·帕罗林枢机主教表示，计划中的直播处决“实在令人无法理解”，且“将死亡变成一场表演是不可接受的。”
Speaking specifically about the United States, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican secretary of state, said the planned livestreamed execution was “truly incomprehensible” and “unacceptable to turn death into a spectacle.”
“教会的立场是完全反对死刑；这与人类尊严不符，也不起威慑作用……，”帕罗林在梵蒂冈新闻发布的评论中说。“今天竟然有人想要使用这种制度，实在令人无法理解——我不知道是为了什么目的。将死亡变成一场表演当然是不可接受的；即使当事人有罪，当然也有其他方法。” 美国主教会议主席保罗·库克利总主教对五角大楼的计划表示“震惊”和“极大的悲痛”。
“The Church’s position is one of total opposition to the death penalty; it is incompatible with human dignity and serves as no deterrent…,” Parolin said in comments carried by Vatican News. “It is truly incomprehensible that anyone would want to use this system today — I don’t know for what purpose. It is certainly unacceptable to turn death into a spectacle; even if the person is guilty, of course, there are other methods.”The head of the U.S. bishops conference, Archbishop Paul Coakley, expressed “shock” and “great sorrow” at the Pentagon’s plans.
“哈桑的行为绝不能被宽恕，但这一决定是对死亡文化的野蛮宣扬，必须重新考虑，”他在周五的一份声明中说。“即使是对造成严重伤害的人进行公开处决，也只会进一步破坏我国的道德结构，并成为其人民良知上的污点。”
“In no way can Hasan’s actions be condoned but this decision is a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered,” he said in a statement Friday. “The public execution even of one who has done grave harm will only further undermine the moral fabric of our nation and be a blight on the conscience of its people.”
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