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Restorative Approaches in a Time of Racial Reckoning

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Amid a national reckoning on racial injustice, restorative justice principles and practices can offer healing ways of addressing the deep harms of racial oppression and transforming the broken systems which give them rise.

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The Federal Death Penalty: What All Catholics Need to Know

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Learn about the opportunities and challenges surrounding federal death penalty abolition and find out ways you can take action.

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Racism and the Death Penalty: Compounding Systems of Dehumanization

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The modern death penalty system in the U.S. arose from our nation's ugly histories of slavery, lynching, and racial violence. To this day, capital punishment is unfairly applied based on race and remains the most punitive practice within a infamously racist criminal legal system.

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Top 5 Myths About Forgiveness: A Catholic Perspective

As Catholics, we understand that there is a Gospel call toward forgiveness — yet forgiveness is never an obligation, but a creative act of possibility and grace. Together, we can work to dispel common myths about forgiveness and open up new possibilities for reconciliation and healing.

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What is Restorative Justice?

This one-page handout gives an introductory overview of restorative justice and ways that practices can be applied in various settings.

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Open Wide Our Hearts: Racism and the Criminal Justice System

Download this letter from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and learn how all people of goodwill are called to address the evil of racism. As you read, contemplate how the most egregious example of our broken criminal justice system - the death penalty - reflects the racial discrimination and bias we are called as Catholics to dismantle.

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Sustentando la Vida

Nuestra fe Católica y la pena de muerte.

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Standing for Life Handout (English)

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The Catholic Church has long supported alternatives to the death penalty. Each of the last three popes spoke out publicly against capital punishment, acknowledging the ways it violates the inherent dignity of the human person.

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Pledge to Pray with Pope Francis

Pledge to Pray with Pope Francis for the global abolition of the death penalty. Add your personal intention to be lifted up in communal prayer.

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