Florida Catholic Bishops’ Campaign Against the Death Penalty

Saturday, Jan. 20, 9 a.m. - 12 Noon                           Sunday, Jan. 21, 1:30pm – 4:30pm
Cathedral of the Sacred Heart                                       Co-Cathedral of St. Thomas More - O’Brien Hall
1212 East Moreno St.                                                     900 West Tennessee St.
Pensacola, FL 32503                                                     Tallahassee, FL 32316

Open to the public, no cost to attend.

The Catholic Bishops of Florida, including Bishop John H. Ricard, SSJ, of the Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee, are continuing to advocate against the use of the death penalty. To that end, a series of seminars on Catholic teaching on the death penalty will be conducted around the state. The first such seminars will be hosted in Pensacola Jan. 20 and Tallahassee Jan. 21. Upcoming dates of presentations in other Florida dioceses will be announced.

Dale S. Recinella and Dr. Susan M. Recinella are the featured speakers in this program on the Catholic Campaign to End the Use of the Death Penalty in America. Dale Recinella serves as the Catholic lay chaplain to Florida’s Death Row. Susan Recinella, a clinical psychologist for mentally ill adults, serves as Catholic lay minister to the families of the executed. This series of presentations will serve to educate Catholics and interested others about Church teaching on the death penalty.

For additional information, contact:
Thomas Vickers, 850-386-7565, dp.vickers@earthlink.net or Sheila Hopkins at the Florida Catholic Conference, (850) 205-6826, shopkins@flacathconf.org