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…
The decades-long movement to end the death penalty has experienced ebbs and flows — moments of progress and moments of setbacks. What we know from this movement, however, is that despite setbacks, the trajectory continues…
At the onset of March 2025, seven executions were scheduled, many of them with short notice. Five of those executions were eventually carried out in five different states, and four of them took place in…
At the onset of 2025, we look back at the past year in celebration of the hope brought by recent death row commutations, which embody the spirit of this Jubilee Year — a time of…
The 58th World Day of Peace will be celebrated on January 1, 2025. Each year, the Holy Father marks this day with a special message. This year’s theme, Forgive Us Our Trespasses: Grant Us Your…
In a historic move, President Joseph Biden announced in the early morning on December 23, 2024 that he commuted the sentences of 37 individuals on the federal death row to sentences of life in prison…
December 19, 2024 | A new report by the Death Penalty Information Center demonstrates that death sentences and executions remain near historic lows as public dissent of capital punishment continues to grow. Read the full…
President Joe Biden could save the lives of all 40 men on the federal death row. Catholic Mobilizing Network is urging him to do so now. President Biden was the first American President to publicly…