![[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,…
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…
Estas oraciones de los fieles subrayan nuestro llamado a ser defensores de toda vida. Otras oraciones se pueden descargar en el sitio web de la Conferencia de Obispos Católicos de los Estados Unidos (USCCB). Click here to access this resource in English: Sample Prayers of the Faithful for Respect Life Month Haz clic para descargar…
![[Webinar] Dos and Don’ts of Accompanying Victim-Survivors Through a Restorative Process](https://catholicsmobilizing.org/wp-content/uploads/victim-accompaniment-webinar-768x430.jpg)
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…
Pray with us for an end to state-sanctioned violence in our modern time.
![[Webinar] Ending the Federal Death Penalty: The Road Ahead](https://catholicsmobilizing.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Video_Play_Template_17.png)
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](https://catholicsmobilizing.org/wp-content/uploads/Synod-five-lessons-webinar-1-768x452.jpg)
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…
![[Webinar] How to Bring Restorative Justice to Your Parish or Ministry](https://catholicsmobilizing.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/EG_Session_3_Updated.jpg)
Watch CMN’s 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 and Understanding….
By Molly Cahill, Assistant Editor, America Media. Originally published in America following Missouri’s execution of Ernest Johnson on Oct. 5, 2021. God who forgives, …
![[Webinar] “Killing in Our Name”: Federal Executions and Pro-Life Witness](https://catholicsmobilizing.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot_535.png)
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…
The poem, “Heaven-Haven,” was written in 1864 by Gerard Manley Hopkins, a Jesuit priest. On July 17, 2020 it was recited by Dustin Lee Honken in the moments before his execution at the United States Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana. Dustin’s execution was the third in an unprecedented spree ordered by the federal government that year. “I have…
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