Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy serves as the executive director of Catholic Mobilizing Network (CMN), the national organization working to end the death penalty, advance justice, and begin healing through the practices of restorative justice. Since 2017, Vaillancourt Murphy has championed CMN’s trailblazing mission to end the death penalty and promote restorative justice solutions and responses to harm, violence, and crime. Vaillancourt Murphy has 30 years of experience working in national-level, faith-based policy advocacy. During 2004-2016, Vaillancourt Murphy served as the senior church relations staff at Bread for the World, a collective Christian voice urging U.S. decision-makers to end hunger at home and abroad. Vaillancourt Murphy has a Masters in Theology degree from Boston College (formerly Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts).
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Jesus offers a paradise of mercy that extends even to those whom we may not think deserve it.VIEW
Restorative justice respects the dignity of every person, including those who have suffered harm AND those who have caused the harm--isn’t that something God asks of each of us?VIEW
By beginning to remove the blinding, stifling oppression within us, we can more readily recognize oppression around us.VIEW