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Celebrate #RJWeek with these handpicked restorative justice resources
Posted Nov 17 2023 |Learn more about restorative justice, dive into restorative practices, and share this healing vision with your community.
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Learn more about restorative justice, dive into restorative practices, and share this healing vision with your community.
Many practitioners of restorative justice experience a similar exhaustion. Rest is a vital element to sustaining ourselves in this work.
The Catechism revision was not unprecedented. What led us here, and where have we gone since?
People on death row are told their lives are worthless — what happens when they start to believe it's true?
Fr. Dustin Feddon was Darryl's spiritual advisor during the weeks leading to his execution. He witnessed the state of Florida take his life on May 3, 2023.
After Scott Eizember's execution on January 12, 2023, his spiritual advisor and the granddaughter of his victims realized they had more in common than they ever imagined.
A recent law school grad advocates for criminal justice reform in response to his mom’s incarceration.
After Darryl Barwick's execution, his longtime pen pal shares what it meant to know him.
We've selected five resources for you to explore this week to honor, support, and pray with crime victims and their families as they continue on their journeys of healing.
In 2000, I entered the Richard P. LeBlanc Unit, a pre-release correctional facility in Beaumont, Texas, and joined a small group in "Bridges To Life."
Jesus’ resurrection offers us the hope of new life.
Mary Magdalene shows us how to proclaim Jesus' message of reconciliation and healing — even when we're afraid.
The violence of capital punishment does not have the final word — even on Good Friday.
On the first Holy Thursday, Jesus invited his human, fallible followers to sit at his table — and he does the same for us today.
Even as the victim of state-sanctioned killing, Jesus exemplified a self-emptying love that we are called to mirror.
God is not indifferent to suffering, he mourns in the depths of our pain.
Across the United States, Catholics and people of faith are transforming our broken criminal justice system into one that values healing over vengeance, and hope over death. Join us as we uplift the lived experiences, ministerial examples, and spiritual reflections of those working to promote restorative justice and end the death penalty.
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