In the Papal Bull for the Jubilee Year of Hope, Spes non Confundit, Pope Francis urged Christian believers to unite in opposition to the death penalty, which is “a provision at odds with the Christian faith and one that eliminates all hope of forgiveness and rehabilitation” (SC, 10). This fall’s Conversations that Matter series explores the state of the death penalty in the United States, in light of the Church's teaching on the intrinsic dignity of human life, and highlights stories of hope, restoration, and reconciliation from death row.
Featured Panelists
Robert Dunham, Death Penalty Policy Project
Monique Lee-Coleman, Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
Margaret Pfeil, University of Notre Dame
Sylvester Schieber, Father of a Daughter Who was Murdered
Originally published at mcgrath.nd.edu.