Cardinal Daniel DiNardo participated in a a Religious Leaders Dialogue on the Death Penalty on January 18, 2011 in Houston, Texas. The Cardinal's message is the third of seven dispositions, or expository statements about the morality of capital punishment. The following groups sponsored this event: Catholic Mobilizing Network to End the Use of the Death Penalty, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, Dominican Sisters of Houston, Pleasant Hill Baptist Church, 5th Ward Coalition of Churches, Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, and StandDown Texas Project.
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