Webinars

[Webinar] Pilgrims of Hope: Tools for the Synodal Journey

[Webinar] Pilgrims of Hope: Tools for the Synodal Journey

About the Webinar Throughout 2025, the worldwide Church will journey through a special Jubilee Year — a celebration that happens every 25 years proclaiming liberation, conversion, and reconciliation — to re-establish a proper relationship with God and others. CMN kicked off this Jubilee Year with a special webinar to provide tools that will help us…

[Webinar] The Federal Death Penalty: What’s at stake?

[Webinar] The Federal Death Penalty: What’s at stake?

About the Webinar In this webinar, you’ll hear from Catholic Mobilizing Network, a lawyer with decades of experience litigating capital cases as a defense attorney, and a religious sister who has provided spiritual accompaniment for individuals residing on the federal death row in Terre Haute, Indiana—even accompaniment to their execution. Our featured speakers will answer…

[Webinar] Introducing Conversations in Communion: Parish Dialogues for Connection and Understanding

[Webinar] Introducing Conversations in Communion: Parish Dialogues for Connection and Understanding

This webinar unveils CMN’s newest restorative justice program: Conversations in Communion: Parish Dialogues for Connection and Understanding.  “Conversations in Communion” is a formation program and facilitator guide that empowers Catholic parishes to build a culture of connection and understanding using the restorative practice of circle process. It was created for parish and ministry leaders who…

[Webinar] The U.S. Death Penalty in 2024: A State of the Union

[Webinar] The U.S. Death Penalty in 2024: A State of the Union

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…

[Webinar] Growing in Restorative Practices: One Year Into the Synod on Synodality

[Webinar] Growing in Restorative Practices: One Year Into the Synod on Synodality

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

[Webinar] Conversations of Hope: Ending the Death Penalty, with Sr. Helen Prejean

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…

[Webinar] Ending Oklahoma’s Death Penalty: How Catholics and Evangelicals Can Get Involved

[Webinar] Ending Oklahoma’s Death Penalty: How Catholics and Evangelicals Can Get Involved

Calling all Catholics and Evangelicals in Oklahoma! Catholic Mobilizing Network and EJUSA Evangelical Network hosted a one-hour webinar to learn from Oklahoma faith leaders about how to stand up for the sanctity of life and end Oklahoma’s death penalty. Participants will learn the latest updates with the status of Oklahoma’s plan to execute 25 people…

[Webinar] The Catholic Call to End Missouri’s Death Penalty

[Webinar] The Catholic Call to End Missouri’s Death Penalty

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

[Webinar] Young Catholics Needed! The Movement to End the Death Penalty

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.

[Webinar] Dos and Don’ts of Accompanying Victim-Survivors Through a Restorative Process

[Webinar] Dos and Don’ts of Accompanying Victim-Survivors Through a Restorative Process

CMN, murder victims’ family members, and crime victim advocates gathered for a discussion of victim-survivor accompaniment in honor of the 2022 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week. They unpacked the many ways that Catholic parish and ministry leaders can support victims and survivors of crime through meaningful processes that repair harm and honor the human dignity…

[Webinar] Ending the Federal Death Penalty: The Road Ahead

[Webinar] Ending the Federal Death Penalty: The Road Ahead

When President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, the country stood in the wake of an unprecedented spree of 13 federal executions, ordered and administered by the Trump administration. Biden, a Catholic, is now the first U.S. president to openly oppose the death penalty, and his administration has declared the nation’s first official (though…

[Webinar] Five Lessons From Restorative Practices for the Synod on Synodality

[Webinar] Five Lessons From Restorative Practices for the Synod on Synodality

Restorative justice practices can create spaces for conversation where every voice is heard and valued. Such conversations are critical to the Synod on Synodality, a two-year process of listening and dialogue for the Catholic Church announced by Pope Francis in October 2021 and running until 2024. On Jan. 11, 2022, CMN hosted a webinar on…