Saddam Hussein has been executed after a fair trial. He was guilty of killing the innocent by unjustifiable homicide, that is, murder. Newvatican, via Cardinal Renato Martino, claimed that "capital punishment is contrary to the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church" and that the just judicial execution of this mass murderer and torturer is compounding a "crime with another crime." So now the Church teaches that those who punish justly-convicted criminals with the death penalty are themselves committing a crime?

Holy Scripture, both the Old Testament and the New Testament repeatedly justify the death penalty.

When any organization teaches that which is clearly contrary to traditional Catholic dogma and Tradition, then one thing becomes certain: that organization is not teaching in the name of the Roman Catholic Church. Those who teach that which is contrary to the explicit law of God have de facto placed themselves above God Almighty in violation of the First Commandment, and Our Lord Himself had grave words about the most special place of the First Commandment.

Renato Martino is in grave error to say that "capital punishment is contrary to the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church." Am I a fool not to realize that Martino is not a "Roman Catholic"; rather, he is a member of the 'A Church' of the some New Order, who obviously doesn't know (or care) what the clear Roman Catholic teaching on the subject has been for 2000 years. Since Martino also displays an abysmal ignorance of the Bible, one has to wonder whether he is even a Christian!