For years, the two most prominent voices among U.S. Catholics on the subject of the death penalty have been those of a nun who is a former schoolteacher and a Georgetown- and Harvard-educated Supreme Court justice. Sister Helen Prejean, author of two books that draw on her experiences as a spiritual adviser to men on death row, and Justice Antonin Scalia, the fourth most senior member of the Supreme Court, have come to represent the extremes of Catholic thought about capital punishment...
Wednesday, July 06, 2005
One Catholic voice on death penalty takes on another
An article from Catholic News Service
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Sr. Helen is a bit absolutist on this one issue. I wonder how she sees the death penalty against the tapestry of tradition and within the hierarchy of Christian values. Evangelium Vitae at least proposed a certain historical-cultural context for a less bloodthirsty approach to captial punishment.
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