Not sure that the military needs lectures from a makeup-wearing TV host and a senile draft-dodger

Someone had to say it. Thank you, @duckworth.senate.gov

Dr. Rademacher began to study about the death penalty after hearing Sr. Helen Prejean. Her Catholic faith also influenced here strongly in concluding the use of the death penalty is wrong.

Mary Alice Pratt was a well-known member of the Lexington KY peace and justice community. She volunteered for years in the effort to abolish the death penalty before her death in 2012. In this brief video she reveals her family suffered the loss of two members to murder. @8thamendment.org

Deacon Keith McKenzie explains how growing in his faith has led him to urge passage of legislation to abolish the use of the death penalty. @deathpenaltyaction.bsky.social @usccbofficial.bsky.social @archlou.bsky.social

Mary Margaret Mulvihill was a member of the Board of Aldermen in Louisville and active in civic life. Before she died she offered her statement in opposition to the use of the death penalty. @deathpenaltyaction.bsky.social @deathpenaltyinfo.bsky.social @kcadp.bsky.social

Marcia Willoubhy describes the pain and hurt she suffered when her son was sentenced to death. She died in 2023. Her son remains on death row in. The reference to the Nunns recalls that Steve Nunn, son of a former Ky governor, was convicted of murder, is serving a sentence of life without parole.

Can we put this fire out in time? #climatechange @catholicclimate.bsky.social

Orange County: Court grants William Thomas "Tommy" Zeigler, Jr. evidentiary hearing on DNA evidence open.substack.com/pub/fladeath... #deathpenalty, @deathpenaltyaction.bsky.social @deathpenaltyinfo.bsky.social

Clean air is important for our health. Come out and push the #Louisville Air Pollution Control Board to do the right thing.

Trump is dismantling the very agencies that protect us from dirty air and dirty water. No one voted for this. #airpollution #cleanair #cleanwater #climatechange #climateaction @usccbofficial.bsky.social @climate.noaa.gov @noaa.gov @lpm.org @selc.bsky.social @lsrioxford.bsky.social

That we may protect life and beauty. #laudatoSi' @usccbofficial.bsky.social @lsrioxford.bsky.social

Governor Andy Beshear tell AG Russell Coleman he will not sign a death warrant for Ralph Baze. deathpenaltyinfo.org/kentucky-gov...

Pro-life activist Margie Selzer hopes other Catholics and Kentuckians will work to #abolish the #deathpenalty in Ky. @8thamendment.org @kcadp.bsky.social @usccbofficial.bsky.social

Emails Reveal Oklahoma Attorney General Agreed to Release Richard Glossip theintercept.com/2025/07/16/r... @deathpenaltyaction.bsky.social #deathpenalty #execution @acluofky.bsky.social @kcadp.bsky.social @deathpenaltyinfo.bsky.social

The death penalty carries the inherent risk of executing an innocent person. Since 1973 through July 2025, 200 people who had been wrongly convicted and sentenced to death in the U.S. have been exonerated. #deathpenalty @innocenceproject.bsky.social @usccbofficial.bsky.social

Plastic Free July. Find out more - take a pic of the QR code. Happy to report that since this photo was taken in 2009 the Derby mini-marathon folks no longer use single-use plastic bottles during the race. How about joining that effort & quit personal use of them? @plasticfreejuly #plasticfreepledge

This former Centre College student from #Kentucky held a religious belief opposing the death penalty. She looked at the facts & became more convinced it should be abolished. @deathpenaltyaction.bsky.social @usccbofficial.bsky.social @deathpenaltyinfo.bsky.social @8thamendment.org @kcadp.bsky.social

Seek!

It is the obligation, in fact, the duty, of the mainstream media (not Trump media machine) to determine if those souls that died in the Texas floods could have been saved if there had not been cuts to the National Weather Service and its partners.

16 years ago, this young woman became a public witness against the use of the death penalty. There are thousands like her across the state of Kentucky. Thanks, Mallori, for speaking up. @usccbofficial.bsky.social @deathpenaltyaction.bsky.social @kcadp.bsky.social @deathpenaltyinfo.bsky.social

I wrote about how the Everglades experiment fits into the history of concentration camps in the US and abroad, and how it will connect a domestic network of camps to an international one. We’re watching the imposition of a global concentration camp network.

As we learn about the flooding in Texas this weekend and the deaths that resulted, perhaps reflecting on the warnings of Laudato Si' will help us form a response - laudatosimovement.org/news/water-s... @usccbofficial.bsky.social #floods #Catholic #raisinghope @laudatosinl.bsky.social

Through a friend on death row in Ky, a Cave City resident and her granddaughter found comfort in advice he offered. He found purpose there. @usccbofficial.bsky.social @deathpenaltyaction.bsky.social @deathpenaltyinfo.bsky.social @tessaduvall.bsky.social #deathpenalty

Having lost a loved one to murder, family members remained resolved in opposing the #deathpenalty for Robin's killer. @usccbofficial.bsky.social @kcadp.bsky.social @8thamendment.org @deathpenaltyaction.bsky.social

How time in the killing fields of Vietnam taught this veteran the value of human life and that the use of the #deathpenalty devalues life. @usccbofficial.bsky.social @8thamendment.org @kcadp.bsky.social @deathpenaltyaction.bsky.social @catholicnewssvc.bsky.social @catholicclimate.bsky.social

Can you imagine your child on death row? The death penalty, besides being an immoral response to violence, also punishes persons who committed no crime at all. #deathpenalty @usccbofficial.bsky.social @deathpenaltyaction.bsky.social @kcadp.bsky.social @8thamendment.org

Alligator Alcatraz. "If that sounds like a direct-to-streaming Nic Cage film, it is not. Alligator Alcatraz is a detention center for migrants surrounded by the kind of lethal wildlife Trump once 'joked' about using in the Rio Grande to deter border crossings." Now that "joke" is a cruel reality.

The #DeathPenaltyPolicyProject has a new report out documenting the executions of several innocent persons in PA. In this video Kentuckian Jeanie Watts raises this issue and her reason to oppose the death penalty. @deathpenaltyaction.bsky.social @kcadp.bsky.social @usccbofficial.bsky.social

Another Kentuckian speaks out against the use of the #deathpenalty. She understands it is always possible that the state is executing and #innocent person. @usccbofficial.bsky.social @deathpenaltyaction.bsky.social @kcadp.bsky.social

This defies all logic, and I explain why below. But it does continue the wealth grab that defines the Trump Administration. A thread.

BREAKING 🚨 In a move that protects financial interests and ignores the law and will of Congress, the FCC just delayed the implementation of new regulations that would lower prison and jail call rates by 2 years. The rules were set to save families over $500 million per year. Shameful.

June 30, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

www.vatican.va/content/fran... - Consider reading the encyclical letter, Laudato Si' and committing yourself to taking better care of the relationship between yourself and God, yourself and others and yourself and Mother Earth. @usccbofficial.bsky.social @catholicclimate.bsky.social

Tell your Republican Senator(s) You Don’t Want To Pay The Price For Their Billionaire Tax Breaks act.indivisible.org/sign/no-cutt...

THE BREAKING POINT: It is clear we must work every day to ensure the care of our common home, Mother Earth. End the use of fossil fuels, quit producing single use plastics whenever possible, work with others to bring peace where there is now injustice. #environment #climatechange #climateaction

#laudatosi' @usccbofficial.bsky.social @laudatosies.bsky.social

Rand Paul is right: “I’m arguing that the intervention, the military intervention, may not have been successful, as people are saying, and also that there may not be a military answer to this, that ultimately the answer to the end of the nuclear program is going to involve diplomacy.”

Here's some more reporting on the event held Friday to stand in solidarity with immigrants on World Refugee Day. Thanks to all who participated. @usccbofficial.bsky.social #BishopMichaelPham #worldrefugeeday

The Waste Musk Created www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/o...

Faith in action, as clergy in #Louisville showed up to support immigrants on #worldrefugeeday 2025. Many others also participated in this event outside the federal courthouse in downtown. @usccbofficial.bsky.social, other bishops need to take public action as several of you have.

www.facebook.com/share/p/1aR4... #BishopPham clears courthouse. ICE abandons their post and no one is arrested. @usccbofficial.bsky.social why aren't all of you doing this? #immigration @miawong.bsky.social

www.facebook.com/share/16eWcz... #worldrefugeeday. @usccbofficial.bsky.social #bishoppham

www.facebook.com/share/1DaPoC.... #WORLDREFUGEEDAY @usccbofficial.bsky.social

Standing in solidarity with immigrants on World Refugee Day, LEVITICUS NINETEEN:45 gathered more than 50 people at the Gene Snyder Federal Courthouse in Louisville on a very hot Friday. The crowd included clergy from several faith traditions, including 9 priests of the Archdiocese of Louisville.

World’s best #Staffy, #louisville