Putting [the execution] on public display threatens to reshape our conscience to celebrate the state’s capacity for violence.
Death Penalty
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Trump calls off livestreamed execution after backlash. Have Americans finally had enough of the death penalty?
For many Americans, a recent botched execution and Pete Hegseth’s plans for public execution are “just the last straw.”
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The death of the American conscience will be livestreamed
To livestream an execution is so far outside the moral norm that it almost becomes difficult to articulate why it is so morally awful.
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After botched execution in Tennessee, Catholics pray for the end of the death penalty
“We have, unfortunately, a lot of examples that point to why the death penalty should be ended once and for all,” the head of the Catholic Mobilizing Network said after a woman survived two failed attempts to execute her by lethal injection.
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Archbishop Wenski condemns Catholic governor Ron DeSantis’s execution rampage
“I can’t explain the thinking other than that [Ron DeSantis] wants to come across as a tough guy,” the Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski said.
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Florida carries out double executions as Catholic bishops call to end death penalty
The Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops previously urged Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is Catholic, to stay the two executions.
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Pope Leo pledges support to efforts against the death penalty during surprise video appearance in Chicago
“The Catholic Church,” Pope Leo said, “has consistently taught that each human life, from the moment of conception until natural death, is sacred and deserves to be protected.”
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New graphic novel brings Sister Helen Prejean’s story to next generation of anti-death penalty activists
‘Dead Man Walking’ has proven compelling enough to thrive across its many mediums. The most recent version, a graphic novel illustrated by Catherine Anyango Grünewald and scripted by Rose Vines, is no exception.
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Interview: Richard Rohr and the Universal Christ
In our lively and wide-ranging conversation on “The Spiritual Life,” the spiritual master Richard Rohr, O.F.M., often makes mention of one of his most well-known phrases, the “Universal Christ.” But what does it mean?
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Sister Norma Pimentel and Father James Martin on the migrant question
Sister Norma, the executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley, has experience seeing and being nourished by the faith of the migrants she has worked with for decades.