Implementing Restorative Practices
You can bring healing and wholeness to your parish or ministry.
Discover Your Next Step
The principles of restorative justice have many applications within and beyond the legal system. In Catholic parishes and ministries, restorative practices help foster connection, engage difficult conversations, and repair harm. CMN is here to help you discern what opportunities might be best for you. We’ll also equip you with tools and support as you share the practices of restorative justice with your parish, ministry, or community.
Explore these opportunities below:
Bring Restorative Conversations to Your Parish or Ministry
Are you interested in facilitating parish dialogues rooted in the restorative practice of circle process? “Conversations in Communion: Parish Dialogues for Connection and Understanding” will be the best place for you to start.
Join a Virtual Community of Restorative Justice Practitioners
Are you already facilitating restorative practices in your parish or ministry and looking for a community of fellow restorative justice practitioners? Join our Restorative Justice (RJ) Ministry Community of Practice, a virtual network of ministry leaders who seek to connect with one another, deepen their knowledge of restorative justice, and build skills for bringing restorative practices to their institutions, ministries, and civic life.
Learn More about How to Engage in Restorative Justice
Are you interested in learning more about how your Catholic ministry or community could engage in restorative justice? Check out Paths of Renewed Encounter: A Restorative Justice Guide for Catholic Communities.
Still learning about restorative justice?
Check out these educational opportunities to learn more about the basics of restorative practices and how they are applied in ministry.
Restorative Justice is Gospel Inspired Work.
This work, restorative justice and in particular the [circle process], is really what we as Catholic organizations, Catholic parishes, Catholic institutions all ought to be about. It’s the Gospel message of reconciliation, bringing us to go to those places and spaces that maybe are uncomfortable to us, and yet witnessing the power of God to transform us and others into a new entity, into new relationships.
Fr. David Kelly, C.PP.S.
Founder and Executive Director of Precious Blood Ministry of Reconciliation
Upcoming Events:
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Companion Training: Conversations in Communion (January)
January 8, 2025
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Circle Keeper Cafe
March 7, 2025
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Intro to Restorative Justice (February 2025)
February 28, 2025
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