Valuing Life Over Death: Younger Women Religious and the Catholic Call to End the Death Penalty.

The voices of younger women religious will be crucial in advancing efforts to promote human dignity and abolish the death penalty. 

Members of Giving Voice are invited to join Catholic Mobilizing Network on Wednesday, June 30 for a for a one-hour webinar exploring ways that younger women religious can advance Catholic efforts to end the death penalty through education, advocacy and prayer.

Event Details

Wednesday, June 30
8-9 p.m. EDT (5-6 p.m. PDT)

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Featuring

Eileen Reilly HeadshotSister Eileen Reilly, SSND serves as Religious Engagement Associate for the Catholic Mobilizing Network, where she works with religious congregations to deepen their commitment to ending the death penalty and to enhance the voices of murder victim family members.

Eileen holds an MA in Peace and Justice Education and a Masters of Divinity from Weston Jesuit School of Theology. She has taught at the elementary and secondary levels, and coordinated peace and justice activities in several parishes as well as within her own religious congregation. Prior to coming to CMN, Eileen served as her congregation’s NGO Representative to the United Nations.  

After being involved in death penalty abolition efforts in three different states where she was ministering, she became the spiritual advisor to an individual on death row who was subsequently executed.