Harm Healing and Human Dignity: A Catholic Encounter with Restorative Justice

Harm Healing and Human Dignity is a faith formation resource to help small groups in parishes and schools as well as individual believers reflect on the Catholic call to restorative justice. Through Scripture Catholic teaching eye-opening statistics and personal stories each chapter prompts prayerful consideration of the place of human dignity and the common good as we respond to crime incarceration and the death penalty in the United States.Prepared in cooperation with the highly regarded Catholic Mobilizing Network for the Abolition of the Death Penalty Harm Healing and Human Dignity will help Catholics consider what it means to choose hope over death and redemption over vengeance. It’s a choice that can foster healing transform relationships and build the culture of life to which our Catholic faith calls us.