Service & Justice
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A Call to Governor Cooper toCommute Death SentencesCalling the death penalty immoral and cruel, more than three hundred religious leaders from all of North Carolina’s major faith traditions have asked Governor Roy Copper to commute the sentences of all the women and men on the state’s death row before he leaves office in 2024.
Friar Tim joined twenty-five priests and deacons from the Dioceses of Raleigh and Charlotte in signing the letter. It reflects the church’s teaching that “the death penalty is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the human person” and the church’s commitment to work for its abolition worldwide (Catechism, 2267).
The religious leaders’ petition was organized by the NC Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. The text of the letter and a full list of signatories is available on the Coalition’s website, nccadp.org. A similar citizen’s petition to Governor Cooper will follow soon.
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Save the date for Justice United's Next Meeting
May 18 - a live and virtual assembly with District Attorney Jeff Nieman and representatives from Alliance Health!
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Become What You Receive
Here are the texts from the talks given at the February 11 Day of Formation on the Eucharist, hosted by St. Thomas More and the Newman Catholic Community.Becoming What We Receive by BJ BrownGod is in the Verbs, a Prayer by Mary Ellen McGuire
Inclusion and the Eucharistic Community By Amanda Bolaños
Communion and Creation Care, by Bob Weickert
Hunger for Bread & Hunger for Justice, by Bruce McWhinney
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Habitat for Humanity
Thanks to Newman's Habitat Lunch Bunch for feeding our students so well as they worked on another Building Hope house on Odie Street in Hillsborough on February 18. Habitat for Humanity of Orange county volunteers and homeowners have nearly completed building both sides of Odie Street. There's a now busy community of homes with solar panels and yards full of children's bikes and toys. A number of Newman students volunteer regularly with Habitat; contact Jacob Wright at [email protected] to join them. In addition, Newman partners with Habitat through an annual donation from our charitable funds.
