Adult Programs: Special Presentations~ Sr. Helen Prejean

Special Presentations~ Sr. Helen Prejean

Dead Man Walking

The Journey Continues

This program is being co-sponsored by
the Sisters of the Humility of Mary and
the Ursuline Sisters of Youngstown.
Hosted by the St. Charles Borromeo
Christian Life Committee,
the event is scheduled to take place at
St. Charles Borromeo Parish in Boardman, Ohio
on March 6, 2012, at 6:30 PM.

The death penalty is one of the great moral issues facing our country, yet most people rarely think about it and very few of us take the time to delve deeply enough into this issue to be able to make an informed decision about it.

Join Sr. Helen Prejean for a Special Presentation as she invites you to take time to learn, explore and reflect.

Sister Helen Prejean has been instrumental in sparking national dialogue on the death penalty and helping to shape the Catholic Church’s newly vigorous opposition to state executions. She considers herself a southern storyteller and she travels around the world giving talks about her ministry.

Sister Helen is a member of the Congregation of St. Joseph. She spent her first years with the Sisters teaching religion to junior high school students. Realizing that being on the side of poor people is an essential part of the Gospel, she moved into the St. Thomas Housing Project in New Orleans and worked at Hope House
from 1984 – 1986.

During this time, she was asked to correspond with a death row inmate, Patrick Sonnier, at Angola. She agreed and became his spiritual adviser. After witnessing his execution, she wrote a book about the experience. The result was Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States. The book became a movie, an opera and a play for high schools and colleges.

Since 1984, Sister Helen has divided her time between educating citizens about the death penalty and counseling individual death row prisoners. She has accompanied six men to their deaths. In doing so, she began to suspect that some of those executed were not guilty. This realization inspired her second book, The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions, which was released by Random House in December of 2004.

Sr. Helen is presently at work on another book, River of Fire: My Spiritual Journey

This program is being co-sponsored by

the Sisters of the Humility of Mary along with

the Ursuline Sisters of Youngstown

and is open to the public.
All are welcome to attend at no cost.

Books will be available to purchase.
Sr. Helen will be happy to sign books
for participants.

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Special Presentations~ Sr. Helen Prejean