On January 21, 2012, Catholic, Episcopal, and United Methodist Bishops of Mississippi challenged the Governor Phil Bryant and Mississippi legislators not to follow the anti-immigrant lead of Arizona, Alabama, and other states in the upcoming legislative session. The bishops expressed deep concern about the growing anti-immigrant climate in local communities, and they cited Mississippi’s history in their plea for human dignity and rights:

Proposed Mississippi Immigration Legislation Through the Lens of Catholic Social Teaching

by Sue Weishar, Ph.D.

Louisiana Catholics Committed to Repeal of Death Penalty joins Louisiana for Alternatives to the Death Penalty in a campaign to reform jury selection in death penalty cases. 

It's not very often that you can have an impact on criminal justice reform in little more than 60 seconds. You can do just that by recording your testimony for a campaign that aims to reform jury selection in death penalty cases.

A recent study by the Manhattan Institute that heralded the “the end of residential segregation”—a claim that was widely celebrated in mainstream press, has also been found to mask important demographic and economic trends. The study is entitled “The End of the Segregated Century: Racial Separation in America’s Neighborhoods 1890-2010.”

Louisiana Catholics Committed to Repeal of the Death Penalty and the Jesuit Social Research Institute have collaborated on a study that addresses the death penalty through a Roman Catholic theological lens – aiming to “demonstrate the ineffectiveness and arbitrariness of our death penalty system as a public policy, including the ways it is unfairly administered across racial, social and economic lines.” The study – co-authored by Alex Mikulich of Louisiana Catholics Committed to Repeal of the Death Penalty and Sophie Cull of the Louisiana Coalition for Alternativ

Persistent High Unemployment for African Americans and Latinos in Gulf South States

by: Alex Mikulich, Ph.D.

The Research Institute on Social and Economic Policy [RISEP] at Florida International University released a groundbreaking analysis of reported wage theft cases throughout the state of Florida. The report entitled: “Wage Theft: An Economic Drain on Florida.

 “Catholic social doctrine is not a surrogate for capitalism.” [Blessed John Paul II]

By Fred Kammer, SJ

The Sentencing Project reports that a study by Christian Breunig and Rose Erns