Archbishop Gregory Aymond on Life Issues
From the Archdiocese of New Orleans (October 2010) In this video made for Respect Life Month, Archbishop Aymond reflects on issues of life including the distinction of human life above other life, abortion, euthenasia, and the death... MORE
Bishop Gregory Aymond of Austin Speaks on the Death Penalty
From the Texas Catholic Conference (2007) This video from the Texas Catholic Conference is a recording of Bishop Aymond of Austin from 2007. He speaks of Jesus’ clarity on the call for compassion, justice and mercy rather than revenge. Bishop... MORE
Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn on Church Teaching and the Death Penalty
November 2, 2011 If the Church must be consistent regarding the value of life from the very conception to a natural death, the use of the death penalty is something that the Church should be against in our own day... MORE
Bishop Oscar Cantu Encourages Death Penalty Abolitionists to Take Message to Public Square
Listen to the December 2011 address as Bishop Cantu, Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of San Antonio, Texas speaks to anti-death penalty activists. [Audio clip: view full post to... MORE
The Death Penalty: No Justice, No Healing, No Closure
By the Indiana Catholic Conference This video, produced by the Indiana Catholic Conference, examines the death penalty from the perspective of chaplains who work with prisoners on death row. It shares some of the stories of people who are on... MORE
The Common Good in Caritas in Veritate
By Archbishop Joseph Fiorenza Pope Benedict does not address the death penalty in Caritas in Veritate, but we can gleam from the principles of solidarity and subsidiarity that the common good would require true Christian humanism abolition of capital punishment.... MORE
The Catholic Church and the Death Penalty
Presentation of the Most Reverend Wilton D. Gergory, Bishop of the Archdiocese of Atlanta An article in The Georgia Bulletin (October 16, 2008) The Catholic moral tradition shows an unambiguous preference to preserve life even when the order of justice... MORE
Crime and Punishment Revisited
By Most Rev. John Vlazny, Archbishop of Portland “A renewed effort on behalf of the abolition of the death penalty in this land would be yet another effort to encourage our people and fellow citizens to reject a culture of... MORE
The Death Penalty Diminishes Our Society
Statement from the Most Rev. John C. Wester, Bishop of the Diocese of Salt Lake City on the execution of Ronnie Lee Gardener While I was in California I associated closely with groups that advocated for justice for families of... MORE
Death Penalty is Not Justice
By Most Rev. Cirilo Flores, Coadjustor Bishop of the Diocese of San Diego — April 25, 2012 — This year, in the Easter season, San Diego reels from two recent murders – a young Iraqi mother of five and a 14-year-old boy visiting... MORE