Cardinal calls for choosing people over economy as Argentina's lockdown extended
- May 26, 2020
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New coalition seeks to pull together church’s prison ministry efforts
- May 23, 2020
There are more than 30 Catholic organizations providing some kind of prison ministry in the United States. One reason is because the need is so great, with a prison population estimated at about 2.3 million by the Prison Policy Initiative.
Prosecutor disagrees with Pope Francis’s death penalty ruling
- Aug 5, 2018
An Ohio prosecutor says a new Catholic Church ruling stating the death penalty is always inadmissible hasn’t changed his stance that it is sometimes necessary to seek the death sentence.
Nebraska Catholic bishops oppose execution of death-row inmate
- Jul 9, 2018
Encouraging an act of mercy and arguing it would not compromise justice, Nebraska’s three Catholic bishops said July 6 they oppose the scheduled execution in August of death-row inmate Carey Dean Moore.
Argentine mom hopes Pope Francis can save her son in Texas
- Jun 11, 2016
Pope Francis on Saturday met a troubled fellow Argentine and mother of four: Lidia Guerrero, whose son, Victor Hugo Saldaño, has spent 20 years on death row in Texas waiting to be executed, despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling finding racial prejudice in his sentence.
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