Death Penalty Quarterly | July 2025
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…
Fall 2025 Save the Dates
As we kick off the Summer months, we want to share with you some of the many opportunities to look forward to throughout the rest of the year: St. Maximilian Kolbe’s Feast Day Our patron…
June 2025: An Execution-Heavy Month
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…
Ft. Worth Diocesan Priest Assembly Invites CMN’s Death Penalty Education
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,…
Habemus Papam — Welcome Pope Leo XIV!
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…
CMN Announces Winners of 2025 Justice & Mercy Poetry Contest
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…
Pope Francis dies at the age of 88
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…
Death Penalty Quarterly | April 2025
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…
Death Penalty Quarterly | January 2025
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…
Pope Francis’ Message for the World Day of Peace 2025
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…
President Biden Commutes 37 Federal Death Sentences
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…
Summary: Death Penalty Information Center Year-End report demonstrates death sentences and executions remain near historic lows
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…