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Here is Part 2 of our series on the Joseph Story in Florida's Prisons youtu.be/5TYBsIyIryE

Here's the first part of our rich interview with Fr Dustin Feddon and Dr Sonya Cronin on the Joseph Story and how it inspired Joseph House! Stay tuned for more and RT! youtube.com/watch?v=yg2w6L…

Local Tallahassee news covers Joseph House gardens - where former inmates experience the beauty of nature and cultivate their own earth to grow new life See full story here: wctv.tv/video/2022/05/…

What do a life sentence and the death penalty have in common? Both treat the human person as being beyond God's redemption, as an object to be controlled and not as a person to be restored.

"Even when people deny the dignity of others, we must still recognize that their dignity is a gift from God and is not something that is earned or lost through their behavior." — USCCB, A Culture of Life and the Penalty of Death

Our very own Pre from Joseph House speaking at the The Catholic Criminal Justice Reform Network Inaugural Invitational Conference at Georgetown today! @LC_Institute @GeorgetownLaw and @USCCB sponsoring!

"And yet God, who is always merciful even when he punishes, 'put a mark on Cain, lest any who came upon him should kill him' (Gen 4:15). .. Not even a murderer loses his personal dignity, and God himself pledges to guarantee this." - St. Pope Johhn Paul II, Evangelium Vitae

Joseph House rejoices at the stay of execution for Melissa Lucio, and it prays with the Catholic Church for the abolition of the death penalty worldwide.

How to keep human dignity in view in the work of penal justice? "The problem [of the death penalty] must be viewed in the context of a system of penal justice ever more in line with human dignity and thus, in the end, with God's plan for man and society." - Evangelium Vitae

without definitively denying them the chance to reform." - Evangelium Vitae

"There is evidence of a growing public opposition to the death penalty, even when such a penalty is seen as a kind of 'legitimate defence' on the part of society. Modern society in fact has the means of effectively suppressing crime by rendering criminals harmless 1/2

even in the case of someone who has done great evil." - St John Paul II; 1999 Homily in St. Louis, US

"The new evangelization calls for followers of Christ who are unconditionally pro-life: who will proclaim, celebrate and serve the Gospel of life in every situation. A sign of hope is the increasing recognition that the dignity of human life must never be taken away 1/2

- Pope Francis; Fratelli Tutti

"The firm rejection of the death penalty shows to what extent it is possible to recognize the inalienable dignity of every human being and to accept that he or she has a place in this universe. If I do not deny that dignity to the worst of criminals, I will not deny it to anyone"

This place is doing really good work with people who are reintegrating into society after having been incarcerated. It's a mercy few are willing to extend and is therefore all the more important. Give them a follow!

Pope Francis asks us: how do we understand the social purpose of punishment? "Fear and resentment can easily lead to viewing punishment in a vindictive and even cruel way, rather than as part of a process of healing and reintegration into society." - Fratelli Tutti

and the Church is firmly committed to calling for its abolition worldwide" - Pope Francis; Fratelli Tutti

"St John Paul II stated clearly and firmly that the death penalty is inadequate from a moral standpoint and no longer necessary from that of penal justice.[246] There can be no stepping back from this position. Today we state clearly that 'the death penalty is inadmissible' 1/2