June is Torture Awareness Month. Our parish makes note of this event in several ways. For each of the next three Sundays, June 11, June 18, and June 25, we will have a table in front of each church that will contain educational materials and also two petitions: one to end prolonged solitary confinement, and one to close the Guantanamo prison. Please stop by the tables, and please consider signing these petitions.
We have also placed the "Torture is Wrong" banners at each of our churches, as we have been doing since 2008, to show publicly that our Catholic faith tradition does not support torture.