{"id":16699,"date":"2022-02-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/?p=16699"},"modified":"2026-02-26T13:33:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:33:13","slug":"sister-helen-prejean-legalized-vengeance-and-waking-up-to-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/2022\/02\/24\/sister-helen-prejean-legalized-vengeance-and-waking-up-to-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Sister Helen Prejean: Legalized Vengeance and Waking Up to Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Season 5, episode 5, of Messy Jesus Business podcast, hosted by Sister Julia Walsh. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><strong><br><\/strong><em>Photos by Scott Langley. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Helen-Prejean-Photo-credit-Scott-Langley_halfsize-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16703 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Helen-Prejean-Photo-credit-Scott-Langley_halfsize-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Helen-Prejean-Photo-credit-Scott-Langley_halfsize-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Helen-Prejean-Photo-credit-Scott-Langley_halfsize-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Helen-Prejean-Photo-credit-Scott-Langley_halfsize-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Helen-Prejean-Photo-credit-Scott-Langley_halfsize-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Helen-Prejean-Photo-credit-Scott-Langley_halfsize-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Helen-Prejean-Photo-credit-Scott-Langley_halfsize-1200x1800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Helen-Prejean-Photo-credit-Scott-Langley_halfsize-380x570.jpg 380w, https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Helen-Prejean-Photo-credit-Scott-Langley_halfsize-800x1200.jpg 800w, https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Helen-Prejean-Photo-credit-Scott-Langley_halfsize-1160x1740.jpg 1160w, https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Helen-Prejean-Photo-credit-Scott-Langley_halfsize-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-large-font-size\">&#8220;We are called to create, where nothing exists.&#8221;<br> <br>&#8211; Sister Helen Prejean<br><br><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"listen-here\"><strong>LISTEN HERE:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.blubrry.com\/?media_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.blubrry.com%2Fmessyjesusbusiness%2Fcontent.blubrry.com%2Fmessyjesusbusiness%2FS5E5SisterHelenPrejean.mp3&amp;podcast_link=https%3A%2F%2Fcustomwordpresssites.com%2Fmjb%2F2022%2F02%2F24%2Fsister-helen-prejean-legalized-vengeance-and-waking-up-to-justice%2F#mode-Light&border-000000&progress-000000\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"165\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"blubrryplayer-1\" class=\"blubrryplayer\" title=\"Blubrry Podcast Player\"><\/iframe><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/messyjesusbusiness\/content.blubrry.com\/messyjesusbusiness\/S5E5SisterHelenPrejean.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/?powerpress_pinw=16699-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/messyjesusbusiness\/content.blubrry.com\/messyjesusbusiness\/S5E5SisterHelenPrejean.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"S5E5SisterHelenPrejean.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_amazon\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Amazon Music\" rel=\"nofollow\">Amazon Music<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_pandora\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Pandora\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pandora<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_iheart\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on iHeartRadio\" rel=\"nofollow\">iHeartRadio<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_jiosaavn\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on JioSaavn\" rel=\"nofollow\">JioSaavn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_podchaser\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Podchaser\" rel=\"nofollow\">Podchaser<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_gaana\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Gaana\" rel=\"nofollow\">Gaana<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_pcindex\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Podcast Index\" rel=\"nofollow\">Podcast Index<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/subscribebyemail.com\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe by Email\" rel=\"nofollow\">Email<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_deezer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Deezer\" rel=\"nofollow\">Deezer<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_anghami\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Anghami\" rel=\"nofollow\">Anghami<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/catholic-podcast\/subscribe-to-podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>IN THIS EPISODE:<\/strong>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this episode of Messy Jesus Business podcast, Sister Julia Walsh talks with Sister Helen Prejean, who is known for her work to end the death penalty. They discuss how Sister Helen became a minister to Pat Sonnier on death row, which led her to work for justice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;A fire began to burn in my heart,&#8221; she says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sister Julia and Sister Helen also talk about how the Gospel calls the Church to be among the poor and on the margins. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;To engage in social justice means you&#8217;re going to&#8230;take on the sufferings of people who are voiceless and made to suffer. And you&#8217;re going to undertake systemic change,&#8221; Sister Helen explains. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sister Helen also talks about how storytelling has a power to change hearts and minds, and the true meaning of justice. &#8220;Justice means that everybody&#8217;s got a fair shake, and they&#8217;ve got equal access to liberties and freedom and a way to have a livelihood and a life.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ABOUT THE GUEST:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sister Helen Prejean is known around the world for her tireless work against the death penalty. She has been instrumental in sparking national dialogue on capital punishment and in shaping the Catholic Church\u2019s vigorous opposition to all executions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Helen-credit-Scott-Langley-2-1024x683.png\" alt=\"Sister Helen Prejean\" class=\"wp-image-16720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Helen-credit-Scott-Langley-2-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Helen-credit-Scott-Langley-2-2048x1365.png 2048w, https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Helen-credit-Scott-Langley-2-150x100.png 150w, https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Helen-credit-Scott-Langley-2-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Helen-credit-Scott-Langley-2-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Helen-credit-Scott-Langley-2-1536x1024.png 1536w, https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Helen-credit-Scott-Langley-2-1200x800.png 1200w, https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Helen-credit-Scott-Langley-2-380x253.png 380w, https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Helen-credit-Scott-Langley-2-800x533.png 800w, https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Helen-credit-Scott-Langley-2-1160x773.png 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Photo by Scott Langley. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Born on April 21, 1939, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, she joined the Sisters of St. Joseph in 1957. After studies in the USA and Canada, she spent the following years teaching high school, and serving as the Religious Education Director at St. Frances Cabrini Parish in New Orleans and the Formation Director for her religious community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>In 1982, she moved into the St. Thomas Housing Project in New Orleans in order to live and work with the poor. While there, Sister Helen began corresponding with Patrick Sonnier, who had been sentenced to death for the murder of two teenagers. Two years later, when Patrick Sonnier was put to death in the electric chair, Sister Helen was there to witness his execution. In the following months, she became spiritual advisor to another death row inmate, Robert Lee Willie, who was to meet the same fate as Sonnier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>After witnessing these executions, Sister Helen realized that this lethal ritual would remain unchallenged unless its secrecy was stripped away, and so she sat down and wrote a book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sisterhelen.org\/books\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States<\/a>. Dead Man Walking hit the shelves when national support for the death penalty was over 80% and, in Sister Helen\u2019s native Louisiana, closer to 90%. The book ignited a national debate on capital punishment and it inspired an Academy Award winning movie, a play and an opera. Sister Helen also embarked on a speaking tour that continues to this day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Sister Helen works with people of all faiths and those who follow no established faith, but her voice has had a special resonance with her fellow Catholics. Over the decades, Sister Helen has made personal approaches to two popes, John Paul II and Pope Francis, urging them to establish the Catholic Church\u2019s position as unequivocally opposed to capital punishment under any circumstances. After Sister Helen\u2019s urging, under John Paul II the catechism was revised to strengthen the church\u2019s opposition to executions, although it allowed for a very few exceptions. Not long after meeting with Sister Helen in August of 2018, Pope Francis announced new language of the Catholic Catechism which declares that the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person, with no exceptions.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, although capital punishment is still on the books in 29 states in the USA, it has fallen into disuse in most of those states. Prosecutors and juries alike are turning away from death sentences, with the death penalty becoming increasingly a geographical freak. Sister Helen continues her work, dividing her time between educating the public, campaigning against the death penalty, counseling individual death row prisoners, and working with murder victims\u2019 family members. Sister Helen\u2019s second book, The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions, was published in 2004; and her third book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sisterhelen.org\/book-tour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">River of Fire: My Spiritual Journey<\/a>, in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CONTEMPLATIVE MOMENT is a reading from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Amos+5%3A12-24&amp;version=NIV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amos 5:12-15, 22-24.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MESSY JESUS BUSINESS is produced and hosted by Sister Julia Walsh, and edited by Charish Badzinski.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Email us at&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:messyjesusbusiness@gmail.com\">messyjesusbusiness@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BE SOCIAL:<br><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MessyJesusBusiness\"><br>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MessyJesusBusiness<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/messyjesusbusiness\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/messyjesusbusiness<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Twitter: @messyjesusbiz<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>SUPPORT US:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/messyjesusbusiness\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/messyjesusbusiness<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Season 5, episode 5, of Messy Jesus Business podcast, hosted by Sister Julia Walsh. 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