Sr helen prejean biography of rory gilmore photos

Helen Prejean is the well known author of that massive success as book, film, and even opera, Dead Man Walking She is one of the most powerful advocates for the abolition of the death penalty, not just in the US, but everywhere. Her point is that respect for human life has greater dimension than many people will accept. More than that she now realised that a significant number of those executed had been wrongly convicted in the first place.

Sr helen prejean biography of rory gilmore photos: Nonfiction: RIVER OF FIRE

Here in her new book, Helen Prejean tells her own life story and relates just what happened in her life that has brought her to where she stands today, and how her faith and her spirituality are dedicated to a deep sense of service to others. This book is an apologia pro vita sua, a justification of the Faith she finds within her. As such it is never less than an engaging and dynamic read, filled with interest to all who recall or would want to know about how the Church was changed by Vatican II.

In these she finds herself increasingly engaged with the need to work for social justice as a necessary foundation for Faith. Jesus, she believes, calls us every day to see justice is done for all. Helen Prejean comes from a Catholic family of Louisiana — a state whose French heritage belies the claims so often made about what it is to be an American.

This background is very different to the Irish-American background to Catholicism we are too accustomed to have in mind here in Ireland; it reminds us that there were more ways of being Catholic than the Irish way. The first part of the book deals with her life as a novice nun, and what that meant in the s and 60s.