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Bishops’ Committee Joins Call To End Life Sentences Without Parole For Children
- January 30, 2013 - WASHINGTON – A committee of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has endorsed the principles of a national campaign to end the practice of sentencing people under the age of 18 to life in... MORE
California Catholic Conference Issues Statement on the Defeat of Prop 34 in the California General Election
- November 7, 2012 - Bishop Gerald Wilkerson, President of the California Catholic Conference, issued the following statement in regard to the vote on Proposition 34 to end the use of the death penalty in California. The California Catholic Conference... MORE
VIDEO: Archbishop Gomez Discusses California Bishops’ Support of Proposition 34
Archbishop José Gomez and the Catholic Bishops of California encourage you to promote the passing of Proposition 34 which is on the ballot in November. Prop 34 is the initiative that will replace the death penalty in California with life in... MORE
Archbishop Cordileone of San Francisco Endorses Proposition 34
- October 26, 2012 - Together with my fellow Bishops of California, Pope Benedict XVI, Blessed Pope John Paul II and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, I write to you today in strong support of Proposition 34 to... MORE
Bulletin Inserts: The Bishops of California Endorse Proposition 34
By the California Catholic Conference September 2012 Proposition 34 repeals the death penalty as maximum punishment for persons found guilty of murder and replaces it with life imprisonment without possibility of parole. This repeal applies retroactively to persons already sentenced to death.... MORE
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
Archbishop Wilton Gregory Speaks on the Death Penalty
In this video, Atlanta Archbishop Wilton Gregory asks Catholics to reflect on their own views of capital punishment and to join in the Church’s call for its abandonment in the State of Georgia and beyond. This video is part of... 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 Gregory Aymond of Austin from 2007. He speaks of Jesus’ clarity on the call for compassion, justice and mercy rather than revenge.... MORE
Bishop Jaime Soto Public Service Announcement in Support of Proposition 34
September 24, 2012 The ordinary bishop of the Diocese of Sacramento, Bishop Jaime Soto, in conjunction with a recent announcement by the entire California Catholic Conference of Bishops, has released a public service announcement in support of Proposition 34, the... 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