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The lethal injection room at California's San Quentin State Prison.

Missouri executes Muslim prisoner Marcellus Williams despite Catholic protest

Sep 25, 2024

By Jonah McKeown

Citing opposition to the death penalty and doubts about Williams’ guilt, a local and national outcry did not stop the... Read more

The South Carolina State House in Columbia, South Carolina, on May 16, 2023.

South Carolina could execute a death row inmate every 35 days as death penalty resumes

Sep 11, 2024

By Tyler Arnold

A South Carolina Supreme Court order decided that a five-week interval between executions was “reasonable” and “warranted.” Read more

Death penalty.

Catholic priest shares inside look of accompanying a man on death row

Jul 4, 2023

By Francesca Pollio Fenton

Father Dustin Feddon from the Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee tells CNA what it was like to walk with Darryl Barwick to... Read more

Louisiana State Capitol building which is located in Baton Rouge.

Bid to end death penalty in Louisiana fails

May 8, 2019

Senate Bill 112 would have added a question to the next state-wide ballot proposing a constitutional amendment to abolish the... Read more

Jail, Prison, Death Row.

Priest shares God’s love on Ohio’s death row

Sep 1, 2013

By Kevin J. Jones

An Ohio priest says his ministry to prisoners on death row has strengthened his conviction in the power of God’s... Read more

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SENT founder John Cannon speaks at the September 2024 SENT Summit.

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Auxiliary Bishop Luis Manuel Alí Herrera is secretary of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors.

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Smoke from incense drifts in the air at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, California, where the 2025 National Eucharistic Pilgrimage concluded on June 22, 2025.

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Pope Leo XIV leads a Eucharistic procession in Rome on June 22, 2025, for the feast of Corpus Christi.

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Pope Leo XIV speaks to pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square for the Sunday Angelus on June 22, 2025.

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Despite being Yazidi, a religious minority that has suffered persecution in Iraq, Wael Jejo Khdeida, along with his wife, tends to Mar Odisho Church in northern Iraq without pay and treats it as sacred.

‘The church comes first’: A Yazidi family’s promise to protect a Christian sacred site

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