In August 2018, 45 Catholic scholars, and clergy signed an appeal to the cardinals of the Catholic Church, calling on them to advise Pope Francis to retract the recent revision made to the Catechism,[506] on the grounds that its appearance of contradicting scripture and traditional teaching is causing scandal. It was said that to teach capital punishment is always and intrinsically evil would contradict Holy Scripture and what the Church has always taught for over two thousand years. Genesis 9:6 affirms that capital punishment is a means of securing justice.