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Archbishop of Baltimore
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Obispo de la Diócesis de Austin
Mission Statement
Catholic Mobilizing Network (CMN) proclaims the Church's unconditional pro-life teaching and its application to capital punishment and restorative justice. CMN works in close collaboration with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to prepare Catholics for informed involvement in campaigns to repeal state death penalty laws and expand or inaugurate restorative justice programs. Join us in our campaign to end use of the death penalty in the United States.
EDUCATE
Educate the lay community through our programs and materials on the Church's teachings on the death penalty.
FACILITATE
Facilitate respectful and informed discourse within the Catholic community and the community at large.
ADVOCATE
Encourage informed Catholic involvement in the public debate.
"I renew the appeal I made most recently at Christmas for a consensus to end the death penalty, which is both cruel and unnecessary."
John Paul II, St. Louis, Missouri, January 1999
"The use of the death penalty cannot really be mended. It should be ended."
Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick
"Our Church's teaching exhorts us to respect human life in all its stages, and in all circumstances. As Catholics, we combine our pro-life and social-justice convictions in defense of human life and we proclaim that the penalty of death is never the answer to a difficult pregnancy, a prolonged illness or a violent crime."
Tom Grenchik, Executive Director, USCCB Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities"Across the country, the Catholic community is playing a central role in ending the death penalty. Our faith and experience teach that violence should not and need not be answered with more violence. We cannot teach that killing is wrong by killing. The Catholic Mobilizing Network supports this essential work by sharing Catholic teaching and advocating for the Church's position in ways that make a real difference. CMN is a great example of lay Catholics teaching to a dark corner of our national life."
John Carr, Executive Director, USCCB Department of Justice, Peace & Human Development
In the News
Read a letter from the Most Rev. John C. Wester Bishop of the Diocese of Salt Lake City
DEATH PENALTY: Post-Genocide Countries Ban Executions to 'End Revenge'
Group Gives Up Death Penalty Work
The American Law Institute created the intellectual framework for the modern capital justice system almost 50 years ago. Last fall, the Institute pronounced its project a failure and walked away from it. (New York Times)
Past President of Prestigious American Law Institute Says Death Penalty "Unworkable"
