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Welcome to Tuesday. NCR's editorial says in order to heal our nation, we have a moral obligation to support the impeachment of President Donald Trump. Catholic groups join the call to end the spree of federal executions taking place in the final days of Trump's presidency.
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** Editorial: After attempted coup, impeaching Trump is a moral obligation ([link removed])
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"A sitting U.S. president has incited an attempted insurrection in which people died," NCR writes in our latest editorial. "This calls for an immediate response toward removal from office. We have a moral obligation to support the impeachment of President Donald Trump."
"The fact that some Republicans are finally acting like Americans first, and partisans second, invites the Congress to strike while the iron is hot," we write. "A roll call vote will also expose before history who is, and who is not, willing to place country before cult."
NCR's editorial staff supports impeaching the president because, as we write, "there can be no real start at healing our nation unless we recognize how badly Trump damaged our democracy."
You can read the rest of the editorial here ([link removed]) .
More background:
* In another editorial ([link removed]) , NCR says that among those with some culpability for the Jan. 6 failed insurrection are more than a few leaders in the Catholic Church.
* House Democrats introduced a single article of impeachment yesterday ([link removed]) , charging President Donald Trump with "incitement of insurrection" for his role in a riot at the U.S. Capitol.
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** Conservative group joins calls to stop federal execution spree ([link removed])
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With three more federal executions scheduled before Joe Biden's inauguration on Jan. 20, Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty has joined calls to end the spree of federal executions taking place during the final months of Donald Trump's presidency.
2020 was the first year in American history during which the federal government has executed more individuals than all the states combined, the Death Penalty Information Center said in its annual report, released Dec. 16. The report refers to the last six months of 2020 as "a six-month spree of federal executions without parallel in the 20th or 21st centuries."
Biden will be the first president to oppose capital punishment upon entering office. But three people are still set to be executed by the federal government before that happens. The first, Lisa Montgomery, is scheduled to be put to death on Jan. 12. The second, Corey Johnson, is scheduled to be executed two days later on Jan. 14. The third, Maryland native Dustin Higgs, is set to be executed the day after Johnson, on Jan. 15.
You can read more of the story here ([link removed]) .
More background:
* At Global Sisters Report ([link removed]) , Loretto Sr. Mary Ann McGivern writes about the case of Lisa Montgomery. "We don't have the right to execute anyone, but we have the extra obligation to care for persons like Lisa with mental illness."
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** Building a Common Future ([link removed])
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This week, we continue our series, Building a Common Future ([link removed]) , in which we asked Catholic politicians, activists and scholars to offer advice to President-elect Joe Biden.
"Building our common future: It's what the United States, indeed, the entire world needs right now," we wrote in an editorial ([link removed]) introducing the series.
Today's commentary ([link removed]) comes from U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Connecticut) and focuses on income inequality and the widening wealth gap. "I believe we must provide comprehensive and affordable healthcare, expand opportunities for our children, and work to alleviate hunger," DeLauro writes. "These are the cornerstones of taking on economic, social and racial justice as demanded by Catholic social teaching."
You can read Monday's commentary on rural poverty by Bishop John Stowe of Lexington, Kentucky here ([link removed]) .
Read the rest of DeLauro's commentary here ([link removed]) .
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** More headlines
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* "What consequences will emerge from the carnage that Trump once imagined and finally created is yet to be determined," former NCR executive editor Tom Roberts writes ([link removed]) . "But it was consoling, for a moment, to think that in less than two weeks the unhinged, incompetent and absurdly self-indulgent would be replaced by competence and intelligence, even compassion, and, above all, regard for democratic norms that had become tattered."
* In an EarthBeat commentary ([link removed]) , Jon Magunson writes about the price we have paid for disrupting natural systems of self-regulation.
* ICYMI: The Legionaries of Christ university in Rome plans to honor controversial priest ([link removed]) , Fr. Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, with its "A Life for Life" award.
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** Final thoughts
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Now in the second week of our Building a Common Future series ([link removed]) , we will begin hosting weekly Facebook Live events with some of the writers of those commentaries. Join us at 1:30 p.m. Central time on Thursday ([link removed]) as NCR opinion editor Olga Segura and NCR executive editor Heidi Schlumpf chat with Bishop John Stowe of Lexington, Kentucky to kick things off. The event will also be streaming live on our YouTube page ([link removed]) .
Until Wednesday,
Stephanie Yeagle
NCR Managing Editor
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Twitter: @ncrSLY ([link removed])
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