Talk to us
CathNews, the most frequently visited Catholic website in Australia, is your daily news service featuring Catholics and Catholicism from home and around the world, Mass on Demand and on line, prayer, meditation, reflections, opinion, and reviews. And, what's more - it's free!
Trump says he will seek death penalty for all murders in DC
United States President Donald Trump announced yesterday that capital punishment will be sought for all murders in Washington, DC. Source: Catholic Review.
Florida bishops appeal to state governor to stop scheduled execution
The Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops has asked Republican Governor Ron DeSantis to stay the August 28 scheduled execution of Curtis Windom and commute his sentence to life imprisonment without parole. Source: OSV News.
Papal rosary presented to world’s longest death row inmate
The Archbishop of Tokyo has visited an 88-year-old Japanese former boxer and convert to Catholicism who was the world’s longest-serving death row inmate until his definitive acquittal in 2024, presenting him with a rosary blessed by Pope Francis. Source: Crux.
Pope appeals for US death sentences to be commuted
Pope Francis yesterday made a special appeal for the lives of death row inmates in the United States to be spared. Source: NCR Online.
Bishops reaffirm solidarity with Filipino migrants on death row
Catholic bishops in the Philippines have expressed solidarity with 44 Filipino migrants on death row in Malaysia, Brunei and Saudi Arabia and pledged continued advocacy for their rights and freedom. Source: UCA News.
Catholics in US urged to campaign against death penalty
Opponents of the death penalty voiced dismay after five men were executed in the United States in the space of one week, including Marcellus Williams, whose prosecutors had raised doubts about the safety of his conviction. Source: The Tablet.
South Carolina to resume executions after 13-year pause
The South Carolina Department of Corrections could potentially execute one death row inmate every 35 days as the state resumes executions on September 20 after a 13-year pause in carrying out the death penalty. Source: National Catholic Register.
Pope says Catholics should ‘collectively call for the abolition of the death penalty’
Capital punishment promotes a deadly attitude of revenge and denies the possibility of change in the lives of incarcerated people, Pope Francis has written in the preface to a new book on prison chaplaincy. Source: NCR Online.
Pakistan court sentences Christian man to death for blasphemy
The chair of the Catholic Church’s National Commission for Justice and Peace in Pakistan has lambasted a court for passing the death sentence on a Christian man found guilty of blasphemy in connection with one of the worst atrocities against minorities in the country’s history. Source: Aid to the Church in Need.