Sister Therese Bangert, SCL, a chaplain for the Kansas City Kan., police and fire departments, has fought against the death penalty for years. This week, she drove to Washington D.C., to sit in on the U.S. Supreme Court as justices heard arguments on two death penalty cases on Wednesday, Dec. 7, including a case to determine the constitutionality of Kansas’ death penalty statute.
“There have been dramatic struggles, mostly dealing with cases of civil rights,” she said. “It reminds us how important the court is to our civil rights. I don’t understand the intricacies of the law. I have always been against the death penalty, as part of the Catholic Church. In March, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops announced a Catholic campaign to end the use of the death penalty. My order, the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth, stands with Catholic religious women across the country against the penalty.”
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