Renew Your Faith

Join us for a conversation with Stephanie Peddicord, president of the Center for FaithJustice, an organization dedicated to inspiring the next generation of leaders by creating programs through which they can serve those in need and educate them as advocates for justice in the Catholic tradition. Having worked in the non-profit sector for two decades, often with Catholic organizations, Stephanie sees her work at CFJ as flowing natu...

 RENEW's Dignity and the Death Penalty is a powerful tool to engage in meaningful dialogue around the death penalty in this country and how our Catholic faith calls us to respond to it. How then, do you start the conversation and bring Dignity and the Death Penalty to your parish? Join RENEW's Mare Ernesto, associate director of pastoral services and Jennifer Bober, manager of marketing and communications, along with Dign...

 This podcast is a recording of a webinar that is part of our Women in Conversation series. We sat down for a chat with Genevieve Mougey, the Director of the Office of Social Concerns for The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington. Her work oversees the connection points between Catholic Social Teaching, charity and social justice.

Women have long played an important part in the life of the Catholic Church. The Women in...

 Cardinal Wilton Gregory, archbishop of The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, and Sister Helen Prejean discuss the death penalty in the United States in a webinar presented by RENEW International and The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington. In addition to sharing their own views of capital punishment, Cardinal Gregory and Sister Helen talk about how Catholics can participate in civil discourse on this polarizing topic ...

Join us as we sit down with Kerry Weber, an executive editor for America, the longest-running Jesuit publication in the United States. As an editor of such a prominent publication, she has a significant role in shaping Catholic communications in this country. We had a wonderful conversation about her faith journey—how she sees her role as a lay woman in Catholic communications, how she found her voice within the Church and how she ...

 Join RENEW International and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, for a conversation with Sister Helen Prejean and Dr. Jeannine Marino, as they discuss the death penalty in the United States and what current Church teaching has to say about this subject. Sister Helen Prejean is an outspoken advocate for abolishing the death penalty in the United States and is best known for her book, Dead Man Walking, which was turned int...

Dr. Gregory Popcak, Founder and Executive Director of the Pastoral Solutions Institute, and RENEW's Sister Terry Rickard engage in an enlightening conversation on Creating a CatholicHŌM (Household on Mission).

The last year has forced us to focus on the Catholic family—the domestic church—and how Catholics can experience their faith on the homefront. This webinar will introduce participants to a new model of family sp...

Women’s experiences are different from men’s. Being uniquely female, as God made us to be, involves action. All women are called to live holy lives, but how do we do it? The field hospital of the Church needs women of strength and gentle leadership now more than ever.

Loretta Pehanich, author of Women in Conversation: Stand up! discusses women's spiritual hunger for more than the connections found during liturgy. This webinar i...

This interview accompanies session seven of Dignity & the Death Penalty: Evolution of Catholic Teaching. This small-group resource examines Catholic teaching on the death penalty, based on the insights of Sr. Helen Prejean. Sister Helen is a leading advocate for abolition of the death penalty and for elimination of social and economic unfairness in the criminal-justice system. She is also the author of Dead Man Walking: An Eyew...

This interview accompanies session five of Dignity & the Death Penalty: Evolution of Catholic Teaching. This small-group resource examines Catholic teaching on the death penalty, based on the insights of Sr. Helen Prejean. Sister Helen is a leading advocate for abolition of the death penalty and for elimination of social and economic unfairness in the criminal-justice system. She is also the author of Dead Man Walking: An Eyewi...

This interview accompanies session six of Dignity & the Death Penalty: Evolution of Catholic Teaching. This small-group resource examines Catholic teaching on the death penalty, based on the insights of Sr. Helen Prejean. Sister Helen is a leading advocate for abolition of the death penalty and for elimination of social and economic unfairness in the criminal-justice system. She is also the author of Dead Man Walking: An Eyewit...

This interview accompanies session four of Dignity & the Death Penalty: Evolution of Catholic Teaching. This small-group resource examines Catholic teaching on the death penalty, based on the insights of Sr. Helen Prejean. Sister Helen is a leading advocate for abolition of the death penalty and for elimination of social and economic unfairness in the criminal-justice system. She is also the author of Dead Man Walking: An Eyewi...

This interview accompanies session three of Dignity & the Death Penalty: Evolution of Catholic Teaching. This small-group resource examines Catholic teaching on the death penalty, based on the insights of Sr. Helen Prejean. Sister Helen is a leading advocate for abolition of the death penalty and for elimination of social and economic unfairness in the criminal-justice system. She is also the author of Dead Man Walking: An Eyew...

This interview accompanies session two of Dignity & the Death Penalty: Evolution of Catholic Teaching. This small-group resource examines Catholic teaching on the death penalty, based on the insights of Sr. Helen Prejean. Sister Helen is a leading advocate for abolition of the death penalty and for elimination of social and economic unfairness in the criminal-justice system. She is also the author of Dead Man Walking: An Eyewit...

On this episode of Walk in Faith, Craig Syracusa interviews Sister Helen Prejean. Sister Helen is a leading advocate for abolition of the death penalty and for elimination of social and economic unfairness in the criminal-justice system. She is also the author of Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States and The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions. To advance her ...

 Our entire planet is at a crossroads. We are fast approaching a tipping point which will send us down a path of destruction. There is still time, however, to change course if we learn to care for our common home and be good stewards of creation. This Earth Day we joined in prayer for our planet as we seek a worldwide conversion of hearts and minds. Our prayer included a reflection by  Sister Arlene Flaherty on Creation at the Cros...