Value Driven Women at St. Joe Hear About the Death Penalty
International Death Penalty activist Sr. Helen Prejean visits Frontenac School for 3 days.
St. Joseph’s Academy had a very special guest this week. Their guest is book writer; nominee for a Nobel Peace Prize and an advocate for the end of the Death Penalty. Sister Helen Prejean, from New Orleans, and a graduate of a St. Joseph’s School in Baton Rouge, LA spent three days in St. Louis, visiting with all the members of the school community. She spoke to everyone from students to retirees; and of course, taking in the opening-night of the school’s daring and challenging play: “Dead Man Walking.” Sister Prejean, CSJ is author of the international best seller “Dead Man Walking: an eyewitness account of the death penalty.” Her life’s work has been serving the poor of New Orleans (she moved into the housing projects of the Big Easy) to…
