Posts Tagged ‘Dead Man Walking’
The Unexpected Rigors of Sister Helen Prejean’s River of Fire
November 11, 2019
When my mother was still alive, one of the stories she used to tell was about the role of Catholics in the desegregation of my Mississippi Delta hometown during the 1960s. One white priest, a “Father Love,” she said, had come to town to be in residence at St. Francis, the “black Catholic church,” and…
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