One-Pagers

  • Addressing the Harms of Native American Residential Boarding Schools

    Informed by relationships with Native and non-Native people who are committed to truth and healing efforts within their respective Catholic institutions, Catholic Mobilizing Network reflects on the need to learn and discern Catholic institutional and individual responses to harm committed against Indigenous peoples and ongoing reparative efforts. On May 11, 2022, the U.S. Department of…

  • [One-Pager] Restorative Approaches in a Time of Racial Reckoning

    Catholic Mobilizing Network’s advocacy toward ending the death penalty and advancing justice and healing reveals the institutionalized racism and discrimination rampant in the U.S. criminal legal system, which results in the over-incarceration of Black and Brown people. Misuse and abuse of power perpetuate racial injustice and deny human beings of their God-given dignity. As a…

  • Death Penalty FAQ

    What does the Catholic Church teach about the death penalty? On August 2, 2018, the Catechism of the Catholic Church section 2267 was updated by the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith to reflect the Church’s evolving stance on capital punishment: “The death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and…