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Pope urges Catholic teachers to focus less on professional outcomes, more on spiritual lives

Capital punishment

Japan's death chamber. (Credit: AP.)

Cardinal calls for Japan to stop using the death penalty

Oct 15
Nirmala Carvalho

Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David (right) joins the Trillion Peso March against corruption in Quezon City, Philippines, September 21, 2025. (Credit: Diocese of Kalookan.)

Filipino cardinal rejects death penalty to ‘kill’ corrupt politicians

Sep 26
Joseph San Mateo

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks on the South Lawn of the White House during a ceremony to commemorate World AIDS Day with survivors, their families and advocates, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024, in Washington. (Credit: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP.)

Francis pushes end to death penalty as Biden commutes 1500, but none on death row

Dec 13, 2024
Charles Collins

Death penalty protesters are seen outside the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington Oct. 13, 2021. (Credit: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters via CNS.)

Death row exoneration shows U.S. capital punishment is ‘broken’

Jul 4, 2024
John Lavenburg

Soldiers accused of rape and crimes against humanity slouch in their chairs during a military tribunal in the town of Baraka, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Feb. 16, 2011. Congo has lifted a more than two-decade old moratorium on the death penalty to try and rid the country of traitors and acts of “terrorism”, said the government. The moratorium, established in 2003, has allowed offenders accused of treachery and espionage, guaranteed impunity, said the justice ministry in a statement that emerged Friday, March 15, 2024. (Credit: Pete Muller/AP.)

DR Congo’s reinstatement of death penalty faces fierce Church opposition

Mar 21, 2024
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Catholics blast DeSantis move on death penalty as ‘stunning’ attack on human life

Apr 22, 2023
John Lavenburg

Texas to execute man for killing ex-girlfriend and her son

Nov 16, 2022
Juan A. Lozano

Oklahoma inmate gets temporary reprieve from execution

Nov 4, 2022
Carol Zimmermann

Sister Helen Prejean, a Sister of St. Joseph, is seen in Anaheim, Calif., calling for an end to the death penalty in this 2016 file photo. (Credit: J.D. Long-Garcia/The Tidings via CNS.)

‘Can’t not do it,’ says Sister Prejean of her fight to end death penalty

Oct 23, 2022
Carol Zimmermann

Texas death-row inmate takes plea for DNA testing to Supreme Court

Oct 13, 2022
Carol Zimmermann

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Pope urges Catholic teachers to focus less on professional outcomes, more on spiritual lives

Oct 28
Nicole Winfield,
Associated Press

Friend offers intimate portrait of Pope Leo in new book

Oct 28
Elise Ann Allen

Supreme Court in India questions anti-conversion laws

Oct 28
Nirmala Carvalho

After altar wine becomes popular in bars, Kenya’s Catholic bishops order proprietary brand

Oct 28
Fredrick Nzwili, RNS,
Associated Press