Webinars

[Webinar] Using Your Voice to End the Death Penalty: How to Write a Letter to the Editor

[Webinar] Using Your Voice to End the Death Penalty: How to Write a Letter to the Editor

Letters to the Editor (LTE) are critical tools for advocacy, especially when it comes to ending the death penalty. Short and easy to write, they are effective at shaping public opinion and shifting narratives on contemporary issues. Most importantly, they provide a platform for advocates like YOU to speak out on the issues they care about. This…

[Webinar] “Killing in Our Name”: Federal Executions and Pro-Life Witness

[Webinar] “Killing in Our Name”: Federal Executions and Pro-Life Witness

President Trump restarted the practice of federal executions following a 17-year hiatus on Jul. 14, 2020. His administration is on track to have executed 13 people by the end of the presidential term — more than any other administration in the 20th or 21st centuries. This unprecedented backslide into federal executions raises critical moral, human, and policy…

[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 will be 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. On Jan. 11, 2022, CMN hosted a webinar about this historic synod…

[Webinar] How to Bring Restorative Justice to Your Parish or Ministry

[Webinar] How to Bring Restorative Justice to Your Parish or Ministry

Watch CMN’s 2021 four-part webinar series exploring practical components of restorative justice approaches within Catholic ministry. Each session utilizes content and tools featured in CMN’s downloadable resource: Paths of Renewed Encounter: A Restorative Justice Engagement Guide for Catholic Communities. >> Click here to discover CMN’s new formation program: Conversations in Communion: Parish Dialogues for Connection…

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

[Webinar] The 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] 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! Join Catholic Mobilizing Network for a one-hour webinar with Christina Swarns, Executive Director of The Innocence Project, to learn how young people of faith can make an impact in the national movement to abolish the death penalty. Participants will also hear from the winners of CMN’s 2022 Justice and Mercy Poetry Contest…

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

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

About the Event 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…

[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 2021, more than 1,000 people joined Catholic Mobilizing Network for its most popular webinar to date: “Five Lessons From Restorative Practices for the Synod on Synodality.” The webinar explored how practices from restorative justice could enrich the synod listening processes taking place in Catholic parishes and dioceses nationwide.Now, one year deeper into this…