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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…
March 2025 Experiences Fast Pace of Executions
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…
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…
CMN Board Chair and Executive Director send Letter to President Biden
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…
Summary: Does Religion Impact Support for the Death Penalty?
A new analysis of publicly available data from the Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA) concludes that Catholic teaching has a significant impact on individuals’ opinions on the death penalty. Read the full report here….
CMN Hosts the 2024 Justice Reimagined Awards & Celebration
Hundreds of dedicated advocates and inspirational visionaries joined Catholic Mobilizing Network at the Apostolic Nunciature of the Holy See for the third Justice Reimagined Awards & Celebration on October 10, 2024, World Day Against the…
Photo Gallery: Justice Reimagined 2024
On October 10, 2024 — World Day Against the Death Penalty — CMN hosted the Justice Reimagined Awards & Celebration to honor committed witnesses to its mission and celebrate the organization’s 15th anniversary. Below are…