"Where Justice and Mercy Meet: Catholic Opposition to the Death Penalty," will be held on Saturday, November 9 from 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (ET) at the Catholic University of America, in Washington, DC.
The day-long program will also be webcast. Registration is required for attending in person or watching the streaming video webcast.
Here's the full program description:
The Catholic Mobilizing Network to End the Use of the Death Penalty and the Institute for Policy Research & Catholic Studies at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. are co-sponsoring a national conference entitled “Where Justice and Mercy Meet: Catholic Opposition to the Death Penalty.” Everyone is welcome!CMN is excited to promote the latest in the progression of the Church’s teaching on the pro-life issue of the death penalty. Pope John Paul II made it absolutely clear that we as Catholics are called to preserve life and to act to end the use of the death penalty. Pope Benedict XVI expanded on this, urging us to engage on the issue in our efforts to impact public policy. At the World Congress Against the Death Penalty held in Madrid in June, Pope Francis reiterated the Holy See’s support for “the abolition of the death penalty.”
CMN was founded to educate Catholics on the Church’s teaching on the death penalty and restorative justice and to prepare Catholics for informed involvement in campaigns to pass death penalty reform and repeal legislation. CMN’s Mount St. Mary’s University office, staffed by Vicki Schieber, worked in collaboration with the faculty on the just-published book, Where Justice and Mercy Meet: Catholic Opposition to the Death Penalty.
Our conference on November 9th will feature panel discussions with Mount Saint Mary’s University and Catholic University professors and authors discussing their work and how Catholic teaching has evolved on the issue. We will discuss where we stand today, and how Catholics are leading in the winning campaign to end the death penalty in the United States through public policy advocacy. Among the presenters will be CMN’s Vicki Schieber, and a keynote address by our founder and noted Catholic anti-death penalty advocate Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ.
All are welcome to attend this event which will be hosted at the Columbus School of Law on the Catholic University campus. The conference is free and open to the public, but we ask that all interested participants complete the online registration form provided by IPR to guarantee ample space for everyone.
For those that cannot attend in person, the conference will be available online via live streaming on November 9th. If you plan to use this option, please still register online and simply mark the box that you will be attending online.
Additional supporters for the event include the Sant’Egidio Community of Washington, D.C. and the Franciscan Action Network.
The schedule for the conference is available on the event website.
To help spread the word, please download and share this flyer about the event.
You may also purchase the book of the same name co-edited by Vicki Schieber.
More information on the book is also available from the Catholics Mobilizing website. The book is edited by David Matzko McCarthy, Trudy D. Conway, and Vicki Schieber; with a Forward by Sister Helen Prejean.
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