Orlando Bandinelli Quotes
It is better to pardon the guilty than to take the lives of the innocent
Unfortunately, his close successors did not share Alexander’s surprisingly modern view.
Pope Alexander III, ?-1181, [Orlando Bandinelli], Roman Catholic Pope, Statement made when he refused to condemn accused heretics sent to him by the Archbishop of Reims where evidence was flimsey,1162
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The President refused since Lyon himself had not apologized and asked for forgiveness.
This law is used to free “honor killing” murderers who have killed female relatives for what they thought was a sexual transgression that “stained the family honor.” The custom exists in some other countries but rarely with such sanction of law. In the case of Article 548 the word “witnesses” is interpreted to mean “heard about it” or even has some reason to suspect it. Each year in Syria hundreds of innocent women, and even girls are killed with impunity. In one 2007 case a 15 year old girl was kidnapped and raped. When she was freed by the police she was jailed. A cousin got her released by agreeing to marry her, but after the marriage, one of her own brothers, with the knowledge and concurrence of the rest of the family, butchered her with a knife. The family then held a party to celebrate the cleansing of their honor.
Pope Alexander III, born Roland (Italian: Rolando), was the Bishop of Rome and hence head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 7 September 1159 until his death. A native of Bologna, Alexander became pope after a contested election, but had to spend much of his pontificate outside Rome while several rivals, supported by Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa, claimed the papacy. Alexander rejected Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Komnenos' offer to end the East–West Schism, sanctioned the Northern Crusades, and held the Third Council of the Lateran.
