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What's Next for Restorative Justice

It’s a new year and you can join Catholic Mobilizing Network in engaging restorative practices to transform our communities, our Church and the U.S. criminal justice system:

Circle Trainings

Restorative Justice Circle ProcessPeacemaking circles are a foundational restorative practice that can be used in responding to harm, community building, and so much more. Often, the best way to understand the power of circles is to experience them firsthand.

In 2019, CMN will release a Resource List of circle trainers with experience working in Catholic or Christian settings. CMN will also collaborate with skilled practitioners to host multi-day circle trainings across the country. Stay tuned for more info!

Restorative Justice Blog

Over the years Catholic Mobilizing Network has heard many powerful stories of Catholics putting restorative justice into action. Meanwhile, countless others wish to bring restorative practices to their ministry or community, but are unsure how to do so. CMN’s new blog, coming this spring, will gather and amplify stories restorative practices in ministry, practical considerations, and spiritual reflection on Catholic approaches to promoting restorative justice.

Small Group Module Logo, Text: Restorative Justice, Restorative Living, Image: water droplet with ripplesRevitalized Small Group Modules

Following a year of partnering with pilot groups and integrating feedback from participants, CMN is delighted to grow the distribution of Restorative Justice, Restorative Living. Especially in light of the new pastoral letter against racism Open Wide Our Hearts: An Enduring Call to Love an additional module is being developed now to focus specifically on the role of restorative justice in confronting racism.  

Faith Formation Guide

Due out in May, CMN's Faith Formation booklet, Harm, Healing and Human Dignity: A Catholic Encounter with Restorative Justice, invites readers to reflect upon the Catholic call to restorative justice. Through scripture, stories, and eye-opening data, each chapter encourages prayerful contemplation about our individual and communal responses to harm, and how our criminal justice system falls short of promoting human dignity, hope, and healing.

Published by Liturgical Press, Harm, Healing and Human Dignity is available for pre-order at litpress.org. Use promotional code "Justice" to receive 20% off and free shipping when you order by May 31!

Don’t miss a beat! Learn about all of these opportunities and more on CMN’s new Pathways to Restoration webpage. 

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Restorative Justice

Small Group Modules

These educational modules are an opportunity for small groups to learn about restorative justice, consider how it relates to our Catholic faith, and discern the call to action in personal life, parish community, and the criminal justice system. Restorative Justice, Restorative Living is four evening sessions of rich content and dialogue that can be a part of your parish or ministry's commitment to combating racial justice and fostering a culture of encounter.  Overview & Objectives In addition to informative videos and presentations, the modules use circles for dialogue so that participants experience a restorative practice. Materials include detailed facilitator guides, participant handouts, prayerful reflection, and resources for further learning. Content and structure integrates Catholic teaching and prayer, is adaptable to varied environments, and strives to be inclusive of diverse perspectives and experiences.  More
Kate Grosmaire #HopeOverDeath Speaking Tour Washington DC St. John Paul II National Shrine

Sharing the Transformative Power of Restorative Justice

For many people, the first moment they hear about restorative justice is a formative one. So formative, that Kate and Deacon Andy Grosmaire recall exactly when and how it occurred. More
Restorative Justice Mountain Catholic Mobilizing Network

Climbing the Mountain to a Restorative Future

Imagine the criminal justice system as a mountain with restorative justice as the vision at the top. Much is need to move toward that summit, but we cannot get there without abolishing the death penalty. More

Restorative Justice Peacemaking Circles in Washington State

Joe Cotton, the Director of Pastoral Care and Outreach for the Archdiocese of Seattle, explains how restorative practices are being used throughout the King County juvenile justice system to transform the healing process for all who have been impacted by crime. The country-wide effort has created a team of people of faith and goodwill who "stand ready to accompany people impacted by crime, allowing them to transform their pain, rather than transmit it." More

A Step on the Journey of My Prison Ministry Years

Yes, we are all pilgrims on the journey. Any good that we can do for another comes back to us a hundredfold. Jesus is in prison as well as outside the barbed wire fence. Can we answer Jesus’s invitation to visit him inside?  Not only can our ministry help heal our brothers and sisters, many having been victims themselves before becoming “wounded wounders,” but we also are taking another transformative step along our own personal journey.   More

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National Catholic Pledge to End the Death Penalty

“The death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and the dignity of the person.” (CCC 2267) #Pledge4Mercy

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CMN's Mercy In Action Project

Mercy In Action Project

CMN’s Mercy in Action Project seeks to promote clemency for those facing imminent execution. By joining the Mercy in Action Project you will receive monthly alerts with information on upcoming executions and tools to advocate for clemency in those cases as well as prayerful resources. Join us as we save lives on death row! The Mercy in Action Project is being partially supported by a grant from The Consistent Life Network, an international pro-life, pro-peace coalition.

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