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A fact from Capital punishment in Vatican City appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 22 June 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that capital punishment in the Vatican City was legal (but not carried out) between 1929 and 1969?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/June.

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"AMBROSE EPISTLE 26" SAYS THE OPPOSITE OF THIS WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE WHEN THE ARTICLE CLAIMS SAINT AMBROSE ENCOURAGED PRIESTS TO EXECUTE PEOPLE! And still more heated has the discussion become, since the time that bishops have begun to accuse those guilty of the most heinous crimes before the public tribunals, and some even to urge them to the use of the sword and of capital punishment, while others again approve of such kind of accusations and of blood-stained triumphs of the priesthood.

For those men say just the same as did the Jews, that the guilty ought to be punished by the public laws, and therefore that they ought also to be accused by the priests before the public tribunals, who, they assert, ought to be punished according to the laws.

The case is the same, though the number is less, that is to say, the question as to judgment is similar, the odium of the punishment is dissimilar. the Christ would not permit even one woman to be punished according to the Law; they assert that too small a number has been punished.

....But now let us come to the absolution of the woman taken in adultery.

(Ambrose Next Discusses Jesus' Rejection of Executing an Adulterer)

What is the meaning then of, "Go, and sin no more"? It is this; Since Christ hath redeemed thee, suffer thyself to be corrected by Grace; punishment would not reform but only afflict thee. Farewell, my son, and love me as a son, for I on my part love you as a parent. Rakovsky (talk) 08:23, 28 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

Please cite reliable sources for your proposed changes. Wikipedia does not accept original research, which it seems very likely that your contributions qualify as because the Epistle does not mention capital punishment specifically. Savidan 15:12, 28 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

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