The Mass celebrated by Cardinal Wilton Gregory came on the final day of the Jan. 28-31 Catholic Social Ministry Gathering. The meeting addressed workers’ rights, migrants and refugees, housing inequities, hunger and food insecurity, poverty, climate change, systemic racism, gun violence, restorative justice, abortion, domestic violence, and “pro-woman and pro-family policies.”
Social ministry ‘fundamentally a work of faith,’ cardinal says
Online pivot during pandemic benefits Catholic Mobilization Network
Much of the tale is told in its fiscal year 2021 “Impact Report,” which focuses less on financial details than on the mobilization and education efforts of the organization, formed 12 years ago to combat the death penalty.
Restorative justice film offers insights into criminal, societal behavior
The documentary “The Prison Within,” looks at how restorative justice principles work with those society typically regards as the most hardened murderers.
County attorney joins parishioners for listening session on abuse crisis
Janine Geske, a restorative justice expert who is a former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice and retired law professor at Marquette University in Milwaukee, helped introduce the restorative justice concept to the archdiocese last year, and she was among leaders of the Feb. 21 session.
Daughter’s murder becomes chance for restorative justice for her killer
What was another senseless murder in a society with too many of them already was transformed into restorative justice for the killer and healing for the victim’s parents.