Did Pope Francis Order Joe Biden to Commute Death Sentences of Federal Inmates?
Did Jesuit Pope Francis order “Jesuit” Joe Biden to commute the death sentences of federal death row inmates?
While you won’t find any public order – although you will find a public prayer as discussed below - from the Papal Antichrist to Joe Biden demanding Biden commute the death sentences of the 40 federal death row inmates, consider the following events and decide for yourself if this is what happened.
According to this post from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) website dated 12/20/2024,[1] Pope Francis and Joe Biden spoke by phone on 12/19/2024. The USCCB article quotes a statement from the White House[2] that same day that reads, “President Biden also graciously accepted His Holiness Pope Francis' invitation to visit the Vatican next month.”
The same USCCB article went on to mention a Vatican News article about the phone call, noting,
While it did not provide additional details, the Vatican News report did give a lengthy overview of Pope Francis' recent appeal, in light of the coming Holy Year, for the global abolition of the death penalty, which he said is "a provision at odds with Christian faith and one that eliminates all hope of forgiveness and rehabilitation," and his recent call for prayers "for the detainees in the United States who are on death row" (emphasis mine).
The Vatican News article[3] details the Pope’s anti-justice, anti-death penalty stand.
One of the issues that is particularly close to the Pope's heart is the fate of prisoners on death row. This topic has always been important to Pope Francis, who in 2018 amended paragraph 2267 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church to reaffirm the inadmissibility of the death penalty under any circumstances—because, he explained, human dignity remains intact even when a person commits a grave crime.
Note how the pope says nothing about restitution for the murder victim or the victim’s family. Just as he has concern only for illegal aliens, some of whom commit heinous crimes, while completely ignoring the harm done to the citizens of the nations unfortunate enough to be on the receiving end of his migrant hordes, Pope Francis shows boundless mercy toward murderers and none toward their victims. Apparently, he’s never understood or believed what the Scriptures say about the proper punishment for those who kill in cold blood, “Whoever sheds man’s blood, by man his blood shall be shed,” a passage from Genesis 9 requiring the death penalty for murder.
On Monday, 12/23, Joe Biden released a statement in which he said, “Today, I am commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 individuals on federal death row to life sentences without the possibility of parole.”[4]
One of the victims whose death will not be avenged as required by the Bible is Columbus, Ohio, police officer Bryan Hurst, who was shot and killed by Daryl Lawrence on Jan. 6, 2005, during a bank robbery. Officer Hurst’s stepfather called Biden’s commutation of Lawrence’s death sentence “absolutely devastating.”[5]
An article on Zero Hedge[6] dated 12/23/2024 links to another article from Vatican News dated 12/08/2024 stating that Pope Francis specifically “prayed that the sentences of inmates on death row in the United States be commuted or changed.”[7]
The Vatican News story quotes the Pope saying,
Today, I feel compelled to ask all of you to pray for the inmates on death row in the United States,” the Pope said. “Let us pray that their sentences may be commuted or changed. Let us think of these brothers and sisters of ours and ask the Lord for the grace to save them from death.
Pope Francis’s opposition to the justice of the death penalty is well-known. In 2018, he promulgated a revision to the Catechism of the Catholic Church to include the language stating the Church-State’s opposition to the death penalty. The new section of the Catechism reads in part,
Consequently, the Church teaches, in the light of the Gospel, that “the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person”, and she works with determination for its abolition worldwide.[8]
Antichrist opposes the death penalty because “it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person.” Yet Scripture never says anything like this. Scripture is concerned that the civil magistrate, who is God’s minister, executes justice. This is why, as the Apostle Paul wrote in Romans 13, “he does not bear the sword in vain.” And Paul tells us that the magistrate does not bear the sword in vain because, as God’s minister, he is “an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil.” And murderers, as we have seen from Genesis 9, are among those on whom the civil magistrate is to execute wrath.
Based on the above evidence, it appears that the Antichrist Pope Francis has managed, once again, to interfere in the internal affairs of the United States of America, this time to prevent justice being served to some of the very worst criminals imaginable. This is yet another example of the danger of putting a Roman Catholic in office as President. Those who objected to the election of John F. Kennedy due to concerns that this would make him susceptible to Papal influence were entirely justified in their concerns. Pope Francis’s words and Joe Biden’s actions confirm that they were correct.
[1] “Pope will receive outgoing US President Biden at Vatican Jan. 10,” by Carol Glatz, USCCB, 12/20/2024, https://www.usccb.org/news/2024/pope-will-receive-outgoing-us-president-biden-vatican-jan-10, accessed 12/23/2024.
[2] “Readout of President Biden’s Call with His Holiness Pope Francis,” The White House, 12/19/2024, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/12/19/readout-of-president-bidens-call-with-his-holiness-pope-francis-2/, accessed 12/23/2024. Notice how the title of the readout refers to Antichrist Pope Francis as “His Holiness,” a blasphemous title if ever there were one.
[3] “Pope speaks by phone with Joe Biden,” by Salvatore Cernuzio, Vatican News, 12/20/2024, https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2024-12/pope-speaks-by-phone-with-joe-biden.html, accessed 12/23/2024.
[4] “Statement from President Joe Biden on Federal Death Row Commutations,” The White House, 12/23/2024, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/12/23/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-federal-death-row-commutations/, accessed 12/23/2024.
[5] “’Absolutely devastating;’ Biden commutes death sentence for man who shot, killed Ohio officer” by WHIO Staff, https://www.whio.com/news/local/absolutely-devastating-biden-commutes-death-sentence-man-who-shot-killed-ohio-officer/P4KO64QU7JDGXLHXE7UGRMKVZE/, accessed 12/29/2024. The outrage in this case is not limited to Biden’s commutation of the murderer’s death penalty but includes the delay in executing the death sentence. The murder took place 20 years ago, yet the killer was never executed. This is one of the ploys of the anti-justice crusaders, delaying executions long enough to hopefully run out the clock.
[6] “Biden Commutes Sentences of Dozens on Death Row,” by Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge, 12/23/2024, https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-commutes-sentences-dozens-death-row, accessed 12/23/2024.
[7] “Pope Francis: May sentences of US federal death row inmates be commuted,” by Linda Bordoni, Vatican News, 12/08/2024, https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2024-12/pope-appeal-prayers-federal-death-row-grace-inmates.html, accessed 12/23/2024.
[8] Catechism of the Catholic Church, https://usccb.cld.bz/Catechism-of-the-Catholic-Church/566/, accessed 12/23/2024.