The Catholic Church opposes the death penalty for many reasons, one of which is that innocent people have been wrongly convicted. Glenn Ford spent thirty years on death row for a murder he didn’t commit. He was recently released. Read about it in The Atlantic here: Glenn Ford’s First Days of Freedom After 30 Years on Death Row
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Genevieve Shaw Brown writes for ABC News about the unexpected joy of having a child with Down Syndrome. Read it here: Down Syndrome a Year of Grief and Joy
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Our intern, Beth Kelleher recommends the 2006 film, Bella, which won the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival. Read her review and watch the trailer after the jump:
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A new study demonstrates that parents distracted by smart phones interact with their children in harmful ways. Kids feel like they must compete with devices for their parent’s attention. Children learn more from what their parents model than what they say and “who wants a generation of people who text each other while sitting at the same table?” Read about it in Time magazine here: Don’t Text While Parenting
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The Global Freedom Network launched today at the Vatican aims to eradicate slavery by encouraging governments, businesses, educational and faith institutions to rid their supply chains of slave labor. Read more from the Star Tribune here: Christians and Muslims join forces to eradicate modern day slavery. Think slavery is a thing of the past? Nicholas Kristof writes for The New York Times about the estimated 30 million slaves in the world today. Read it here: Slavery isn’t a thing of the past
