This week on Jesuitical, Zac and Ashley talk with Brittany Barnett about unjust sentencing laws, the experience of visiting her own mother in prison and her work fighting to get clemency for men and women sentenced to life without parole for drug offenses. Brittany is an attorney and the author of the Christopher Awarding-winning book A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom.
Podcast: Her mom went to prison. Now she fights to free others from life sentences.
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Pope Leo XIV has appointed Auxiliary Bishop Michael M. Pham of San Diego to head the diocese.
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A Homily for the Sixth Sunday of Easter, by Father Terrance Klein
Pope Leo I helped to ensure that Catholicism would outlast the Roman Empire. His name is a reminder that our faith rises above contemporary politics and temporal authority.