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The Pope and the President: Unlikely Allies Seeking Common Ground for the Common Good
Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:18am | Type: Blog

When Pope Benedict XVI meets with President Obama in Rome today, a shy German theologian and a charismatic leader known for his international rock star appeal will find plenty to agree on despite s ...

When Governments Kill
Originally Posted: 11/27/2012 - 5:45pm | Type: Magazine Article

Richard Viguerie A conservative argues for abolishing the death penalty. On most public policy matters, Jim ...

Global Death Penalty
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:27pm | Type: Magazine Article

Rose Marie Berger Jeannie Choi Stats The number of executio ...

A Good Friday Appeal to Abolish the Death Penalty
Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:17am | Type: Blog

Ten years ago on Good Friday, the <a href="http://www.usccb.org/sdwp/national/criminal/appeal.shtml">United States Conference of Catholic Bishops</a> issued a statement and call to action ...

Be Not Afraid: Faith and Reason in the Notre Dame 'Scandal'
Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:17am | Type: Blog

Notre Dame President Rev. Notre Dame President Rev. John Jenkins is facing furious backlash after inviting President Barack Obama to give the university's commencemen ...

Hope on Death Row?
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:30pm | Type: Magazine Article

Rose Marie Berger Jeannie Choi In October, the families of crime victims and the famili ...

A Texas Procession for Life
Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 7:52am | Type: Blog

In his 1995 encyclical <em>The Gospel of Life</em>, Pope John Paul II wrote, "Where life is involved, the service of charity must be profoundly consistent. In his ...

Harrowing Journeys
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:31pm | Type: Magazine Article

Anna Almendrala Film review: Take, directed by Charles Oliver. Imagine facing the man who killed someone you l ...

Crime and Sacrifice
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:37pm | Type: Magazine Article

Tobias Winright What does the cross tell us about the ethics of capital punishment? At Easter, Christians cele ...

Resisting the Death Spiral
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:37pm | Type: Magazine Article

Howard Zehr Capital punishment is about vengeance, not justice. Resisting the Death Spiral: Capital punishment i ...

News Bites
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:37pm | Type: Magazine Article

Rose Marie Berger Stately Action. After much work by its Catholic majority, the Philippines officially banned the death penalty in June, ...

Not Drunk, Just Not Sober
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Magazine Article

Robert Roth At its best the church is an "innocence project" for ourselves and others. Sometimes we ...

Dead Man Talking
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Magazine Article

Rose Marie Berger A dozen years after Ruben Cantu was executed by the state of Texas for capital murder, the only witness to Cantu’s all ...

Pro-Life, Not Execution
Originally Posted: 08/28/2011 - 7:24pm | Type: Magazine Article

Rose Marie Berger Gov. George Ryan cleared Illinois' death row in January when he commuted 171 condemned inmates' sentences in t ...

Death Rattle & Roll
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 8:37pm | Type: Magazine Article

Beth Newberry The Executioner's Last Songs sounds a murderous note against the death penalty Washington ...

Meditation on McVeigh
Originally Posted: 08/28/2011 - 7:25pm | Type: Magazine Article

Meg Kiekhaefer We were in France when the news came of the terrorist acts of Sept. We were in France when th ...

Potent Quotable
Originally Posted: 08/28/2011 - 7:25pm | Type: Magazine Article

Rose Marie Berger Susannah Hunter "Thank you for your letter expressing concern ab ...

A Devout Meditation in Memory of Timothy McVeigh
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 8:52pm | Type: Magazine Article

Rose Marie Berger We killed McVeigh to make it clear that he was not like us. One of the most disturbing facts ...

Capital Ambiguities
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 8:53pm | Type: Magazine Article

Chris Byrd It's easy to defend the death penalty in the abstract, but much more difficult when you have to participate in death. ...

Rebel Galileans
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 8:53pm | Type: Magazine Article

David Whettstone Jesus on the cross is best viewed as what that event concretely was, an imperial execution," says Mark Lewis Taylor ...

No Longer a Bleeding-Heart Issue
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 8:54pm | Type: Magazine Article

Susannah Hunter The moratorium movement is changing the politics of death. Who are all these people passing mo ...

Peace Prize or Gas Chamber
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 8:54pm | Type: Magazine Article

Rose Marie Berger Susannah Hunter Convicted murderer and gang leader Stanley "Took ...

Back to Jesus' Way
Originally Posted: 04/06/2011 - 7:25am | Type: Magazine Article

Glen H. Stassen How the church became entangled in death—and the way out. When you look at the history of the ...

Defend Life by Taking Life?
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:27pm | Type: Magazine Article

Cardinal Roger Mahony It's time for a new ethic---justice without vengeance. It’s time for a new ethic—ju ...

Dead Certain
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:28pm | Type: Magazine Article

Danny Duncan Collum For the past 25 years, executions have taken place somewhere in America almost every week. They happened in the dead o ...

Pat Robertson Calls for Death Penalty Moratorium
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:28pm | Type: Magazine Article

Ryan Beiler Finding himself in agreement with the American Civil Liberties Union and at odds with Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson said " ...

Image Is...Well, Something
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:28pm | Type: Magazine Article

Kari Jo Verhulst Benetton's ads open eyes. Can they say lives? Travel the world over and American-generat ...

New Voices Against the Death Penalty
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:28pm | Type: Magazine Article

Ryan Beiler Ninety-eight people were executed in the United States last year—30 more than in 1998 and the most since 1951. ...

Stop the Killing, Fast!
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:28pm | Type: Magazine Article

Andrew Schleicher The Supreme Court upheld the death penalty in June, but that didn’t deter the Abolitionist Action Committee from holding ...

To Die For
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:32pm | Type: Magazine Article

Carol Fennelly The death penalty is nothing more than revenge. Recently the world looked on in horror as 22 Rw ...

Community for a "Dead Man"
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:43pm | Type: Magazine Article

Joe Nangle "The hardest part in this is seeing the pain, not only the pain of those I love, but the pain of everybody involved. ...

Breaking the Cycle
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:44pm | Type: Magazine Article

Monica Kennedy I am going to begin this story, in a sense, where it ended, and where it will never end. I am g ...

Hard Evidence
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:44pm | Type: Magazine Article

Julie Polter Hearing the facts about the death penalty. This spring, New York Gov. George Pataki removed Bron ...

A Gritty Liturgy of Faith
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:44pm | Type: Magazine Article

Rose Marie Berger The challenge of Dead Man Walking In Oscar Hijuelos' new book, Mr. Ives' Christ ...