“The death sentence is a necessary and efficacious means for the Church to attain its end when rebels act against it and disturbers of the ecclesiastical unity, especially obstinate heretics and heresiarchs, cannot be restrained by any other penalty from continuing to derange the ecclesiastical order and impelling others to all sorts of crime ... When the perversity of one or several is calculated to bring about the ruin of many of its children it is bound effectively to remove it, in such wise that if there be no other remedy for saving its people it can and must put these wicked men to death.”
![“The prospect that a person will be killed according to the policy he promulgates prompts the [priest] to urge clemency, an incomprehensible position logically.” quote by Helen Prejean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6b2/helen-prejean-19524_quote_the-prospect-that-a-person-will-be-kille_914082.jpg)
![“[it is also incumbent] to hold in suspicion others who depart from the primitive succession, and assemble themselves together in any place whatsoever, [looking upon them] either as heretics of perverse minds, or as schismatics puffed up and self-pleasing, or again as hypocrites, acting thus for…” quote by The Church Fathers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1ba/the-church-fathers-1438_psychology_it-is-also-incumbent-to-hold-in-suspicio_2582339.jpg)
