April 13, 2022 | As we continue through Holy Week, CMN’s executive director offers encouragement to those who stand at the foot of Jesus’ cross, bearing witness to Christ’s execution and the state-sanctioned killings of our own time.
For Immediate Release: Thursday, October 9, 2025Contact: Bianca Misterio at (e) bianca@catholicsmobilizing.org (p) (703) 881-6415Website: catholicsmobilizing.org X: @CMNEndtheDP Pope Leo releases “Dilexi te”, expressing the Church’s unwavering commitment to the poor and marginalized. Urgency to…
On September 25 – September 27, 2025 CMN hosted the National Catholic Conference on Restorative Justice to bring together Catholic ministry leaders, academic and legal professionals, restorative justice practitioners, and people directly impacted by harm, crime, and…
For Immediate Release: Monday, October 6, 2025Contact: Bianca Misterio at (e) bianca@catholicsmobilizing.org (p) (703) 881-6415Website: catholicsmobilizing.org X: @CMNEndtheDP Advocates around the world celebrate World Day Against the Death Penalty on Friday, October 10. Throughout the…
October 10 is “World Day Against the Death Penalty,” a day where people across the globe will gather to oppose capital punishment. Here in the U.S, faith-based events scattered across the country on October 10…
On September 25 to September 27, Catholic Mobilizing Network (CMN) hosted the biennial National Catholic Conference on Restorative Justice in Atlanta, Georgia. The conference brought together Catholic ministry leaders, academic and legal professionals, restorative justice…
Catholic Mobilizing Network and the Georgetown Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life co-sponsored this panel as part of the 2025 National Catholic Conference on Restorative Justice. Hosted in-person for conference attendees in Atlanta,…
With a recent uptick in executions and states pursuing the use of capital punishment in new ways, understanding the deeper forces at play is more important now than ever. 2025 is a pivotal moment in…
In the span of three weeks this June, six men were executed by five states: This pace defies years-long trends demonstrating progressive disfavor with the death penalty across the country. Notably, the execution of Thomas…
In May 2025, CMN staff members Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy and Emmjolee Mendoza Waters traveled to the Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth in Texas to participate in the Presbyterial Assembly of all priests in the diocese,…
Catholic Mobilizing Network joyfully welcomes our new Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV! This moment is historic for many reasons, but certainly among them is the fact that Pope Leo XIV is the first pope from…
Dozens of young adults ages 18-39 from all across the country entered poems in Catholic Mobilizing Network’s 2025 Justice & Mercy Poetry Contest. The fourth-annual contest invited young people of faith to write about the…
On April 21, Monday in the Octave of Easter, the Holy Father Pope Francis died at the age of 88. Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy, Executive Director of Catholic Mobilizing Network, offers the following statement in the…