Peace & Justice Issues

Capital punishment violates the dignity of the human person, who is made in the image and likeness of God. Even those who do evil never shed their...

We are guided by the paradoxical Catholic teaching on crime and punishment: We will not tolerate the crime and violence that threatens the lives and dignity of...

A person doesn’t have to hit for it to be abuse. He or she can degrade, humiliate, blame, curse, manipulate, or try to control another person. It...

  All economic life should be shaped by moral principles. Economic choices and institutions must be judged by how they protect or undermine the life and dignity...

It is the proper function of authority, in the name of the common good, to make accessible to each what is needed to lead a truly human...

Increased temperatures, rising sea levels and changes in rainfall are impacts of climate change, and they affect people living in poverty the worst – even though these...

Men and women have been created, which is to say, willed by God: in perfect equality as human persons; and in their respective beings as men and...

As bishops, we support measures that control the sale and use of firearms and make them safer — especially efforts that prevent their unsupervised use by children...

Every human being has a right to life, the fundamental right that makes all other rights possible, and a right to access to those things required for...