Op Ed

• A lenten plea to Newsom: Commute California’s death sentences

  March 13, 2026March 13, 2026

• How Catholics can urge Joe Biden to commute death row sentences before leaving office

  December 9, 2024December 10, 2024

• How restorative justice and synodality can help the church heal

  April 5, 2024May 7, 2024

• Pope Francis has shown the U.S. a new path for ending the death penalty—for good.

  October 27, 2021May 7, 2024

• The federal government is about to execute the only Native American man on death row—despite his tribe’s wishes.

  August 25, 2020May 7, 2024

• This Lent, U.S. Catholics are called to reckon with the sin of capital punishment

  March 23, 2020May 7, 2024

• Catholic bishop: Louisiana should end the death penalty

  April 24, 2019May 7, 2024

• Our Turn: Respect the dignity of life – end the death penalty

  April 24, 2019May 7, 2024

• Three Bishops Stand Against an Execution in Georgia

  February 21, 2019May 7, 2024

• Can the Church ever bless the death penalty?

  May 26, 2018May 7, 2024

• Applying the death penalty for drug offenses degrades the U.S. justice system

  March 23, 2018May 7, 2024

• Modern system of capital punishment denies real healing

  March 18, 2018May 7, 2024