With the countdown to the end of his presidency underway, President Joe Biden has been fielding a variety of last-minute appeals to address an array of social and environmental issues—from attempting to head off an off-shore drilling bonanza promised by President-elect Donald Trump to the usual pardons and commutations doled out by departing presidents.
U.S. Catholics opposed to the death penalty were among those who pressed for clemency for inmates on the federal death row. They were rewarded on Dec. 23 when Mr. Biden commuted the death sentences of 37 of those inmates.
Partly inspired by that success, one that seemed to rely at least a little bit on the president’s Catholic sensibilities, another group of Catholic activists is…
