At a time when we are shocked and ashamed by reports of torture in U.S. prisons, we recall the words of the U.S. Catholic Bishops in their October 2005 letter: "There can be no compromise on the moral imperative to protect the basic human rights of any individual incarcerated for any reason."
And so we pray:
For recognition of the "special dignity in every human being that comes from the fact that we are brothers and sisters in God's one human family" . . . (Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, June 13, 2006)
