![[Podcast] Encounters With Dignity: A Podcast on Restorative Justice](https://catholicsmobilizing.org/wp-content/uploads/c0qFqZOzIzsNLmFH3aXCUcVt-768x768.png)
Encounters With Dignity, a Podcast on Restorative Justice from Catholic Mobilizing Network, brings you stories, learnings, and actionable wisdom from people putting restorative justice into practice in their everyday lives. Each episode explores the synergies between Gospel values, Catholic Social Teaching, and restorative justice, preparing listeners to bring this reconciling approach to their communities, churches,…
In the aftermath of a crime, a victim-survivor’s faith community is often one of the first places they turn to for support. Yet many of our parishes and ministries struggle with how to respond to victims’ complex needs for healing. As people of faith, we can be instrumental in supporting victim-survivors through restorative processes designed…
What Are Restorative Circles? Circles (sometimes called circle process or peacemaking circles) are a core restorative practice that create opportunities for participants to share openly and listen intentionally with one another. Rooted in indigenous tradition, circles can be used in instances of conflict and harm, as well as for storytelling, shared reflection, and community building. Increasingly,…
This resource is designed for bishops, priests, and deacons who wish to connect the Church’s teaching against the death penalty to Scripture in a homily. In this resource you will find: A selection of Scripture passages and liturgical feasts that lend themselves towards preaching about the death penalty, Core Church teachings on the death penalty…
![[Webinar] The U.S. Death Penalty in 2024: A State of the Union](https://catholicsmobilizing.org/wp-content/uploads/death-penalty-webinar-2024-768x389.jpg)
What is the status of the death penalty throughout the U.S. as we enter into 2024? Experts respond to this questions in a one-hour webinar presenting the 2024 landscape of the death penalty throughout the nation, to increase awareness of what lies ahead in the year. Featured Speakers Most Rev. Paul S. Coakley, Archbishop of…
Download CMN’s Book List for a collection of titles that dive into issues of capital punishment and restorative justice. Featuring titles like The Death of Innocents by Sr. Helen Prejean, CSJ, The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander, and Harm, Healing, and Human Dignity: A Catholic Encounter with Restorative Justice, CMN’s faith formation guide. Use this list as a solo…
![[Webinar] Growing in Restorative Practices: One Year Into the Synod on Synodality](https://catholicsmobilizing.org/wp-content/uploads/webinar-one-year-synod-768x509.jpg)
In January 2022, Catholic Mobilizing Network’s webinar “Five Lessons From Restorative Practices for the Synod on Synodality explored how practices from restorative justice could enrich the synod listening processes taking place in Catholic parishes and dioceses nationwide. In this webinar, Fr. David McCallum, SJ and Dr. Vanessa White illuminate the joys, hopes, sufferings and wounds…
![[Webinar] Conversations of Hope: Ending the Death Penalty, with Sr. Helen Prejean](https://catholicsmobilizing.org/wp-content/uploads/sr-helen-768x364.jpg)
For 2022 Respect Life Month, Catholic Mobilizing Network hosted a one-hour webinar featuring Sr. Helen Prejean, Ohio death row exoneree Kwame Ajamu, and Director of Prison Ministry for the Nashville Diocese Deacon James Booth. The panelists shared their perspective on the death penalty and discussed how capital punishment denies the gospel call to uphold and…
![[Toolkit] Resources to Educate & Advocate against the Death Penalty](https://catholicsmobilizing.org/wp-content/uploads/20240216_164802-1-768x532.jpg)
This toolkit provides resources to amplify Pope Francis’ prayer intention for the global abolition of the death penalty.
![[Webinar] The Catholic Call to End Missouri’s Death Penalty](https://catholicsmobilizing.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Capture.png)
This one-hour webinar was hosted on August 16, 2022 by Catholic Mobilizing Network and Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty. It explores how Catholics can help in the efforts to end Missouri’s death penalty. Participants heard from a variety of voices on the brokenness of Missouri’s death penalty, including Joe Amrine — who spent…
![[Webinar] Young Catholics Needed! The Movement to End the Death Penalty](https://catholicsmobilizing.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/first_slide.png)
Calling all young Catholics! This one-hour webinar with Christina Swarns, Executive Director of The Innocence Project, explores how young people of faith can make an impact in the national movement to abolish the death penalty. Participants also hear from the winners of CMN’s 2022 Justice and Mercy Poetry Contest for Young Catholics.
Explore the foundational concepts and practical considerations for restorative justice engagement in your Catholic ministry and community. Paths of Renewed Encounter is a brand new resource from CMN inviting individuals and groups to embrace healing approaches to harm, and injustice while reflecting on the unique ways that Catholic ministries and teachings can shepherd processes that transform relationships,…