Catholic Church was Once Pro-Death Penalty
The irony of it all. Currently, a majority of the church are against death penalty. But in some point in time during the Philippine Revolution, Manila Archbishop Bernardino Nozaleda openly called for Filipino rebels to be exterminated by “fire, sword, and wholesale executions.” The Spanish authorities then regularly conducted public executions of Filipino revolutionaries. Some historians even say that he was indirectly responsible for Jose Rizal’s death, after supporting the dismissal of the peace-minded Governor Ramon Blanco and replacing him with the tough Camilo de Polavieja.
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