Sister Helen Prejean
National Catholic Prayer Breakfast award for Barr divides Catholics
By Thomas Reese — September 21, 2020
(RNS) — Getting together for breakfast and prayer should not be controversial, but the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast is dividing Catholics along partisan lines with its plans to honor Attorney General William Barr a little more than a month before the November election.
Sister Helen Prejean on new book, getting rid of death penalty and getting Jesus ‘right’
By Emily McFarlan Miller — August 20, 2019
(RNS) — Sister Helen Prejean talked to Religion News Service about how she became involved in social justice, why she thinks the death penalty is on its way out and how she got to 'bump into two popes along the way.'
Still fighting the death penalty, Sister Prejean gets pope’s blessing
By Rosie Scammell — January 21, 2016
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Prejean said Francis’ influence and support are never far away. “The pope’s like a little lighthouse, and he keeps sending out that beam -- this is what it’s about.”
Hollywood’s depiction of nuns a case of ‘Veiled Desires’
By Menachem Wecker — October 16, 2013
(RNS) Author Maureen Sabine sheds light on the paradox of having charismatic and photogenic actresses playing chaste nuns.
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