University President John Garvey, was mentioned in Religion News on how faith affects politics in relation to U.S. Attorney General William Barr’s decsion on the death penalty.
...For a long time, as on the abortion issue, politicians have claimed that their personal principles should not override their duty to the public. But the thinking in this regard is evolving. A 1998 law review article by Amy Coney Barrett, now a federal appellate judge, and John Garvey, now president of the Catholic University of America, argued that “judges cannot — nor should they try to — align our legal system with the Church’s moral teaching whenever the two diverge. They should, however, conform their own behavior to the Church’s standard.”...
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