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Deacons PodCatholics for the Common Good: An Eternal Offering - Daryl Russell GrigsbyDaryl Russell Grigsby, author of the new Paulist Press book "Catholics for the Common Good: An Eternal Offering" is the guest on this episode of Deacons Pod.
The Paulist Deacon Affiliates ask Daryl about the 36 contemporary Catholics profiled in the book, each of whom lived the prayer "Make of us an eternal offering to you" in their commitment to the common good and to human flourishing.
In particular, the deacons ask Daryl about his accounts of the inspiring lives of Fr. Pedro Arrupe, SJ, Mary Lou Williams, Fr. Daniel Berrigan, SJ, Sr. Thea Bowman, FPSA, Dr. Pa...
2025-06-101h 00
Flourishing SisterhoodAnnunciations and Incarnations: A Conversation with Sr. Helen Prejean, CSJThis episode features Sr. Helen Prejean, a Sister of the Congregation of St. Joseph, and the author of Dead Man Walking, River of Fire, and The Death of Innocence. She is well-known for her ministry through which she has advocated tirelessly for the life and dignity of the human person. Sr. Helen shares her call to the sisterhood, and the personal and spiritual growth she has experienced through religious life. Her story begins with her childhood at St. Joseph Academy in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and concludes with her most recent correspondence with Ivan Cantu, a man who was recently...
2024-07-2325 min
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastSister Helen Prejean Wants Your Help Ending the Death PenaltyListen to today’s show, and you’ll learn at least one incontrovertible fact: Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ, is an absolute dynamo.
She has spent close to four decades accompanying prisoners on death row and almost as long advocating for the end of the death penalty—work that first came to worldwide renown with the 1993 publication of her book “Dead Man Walking.” (The book inspired an Academy Award-winning movie, an opera and a stage play, and it transformed the national dialogue on capital punishment.) And if her recent conversation with hosts Mike Jordan Laskey and MegAnne Liebsch is any indication, she shows...
2021-05-1256 min
Catholic Women PreachApril 12, 2020: When we rise, we rise together with Sr. Helen PrejeanPreaching for Easter, Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ, reflects on what resurrection means for community:
"But over the years, as the community has reflected, we have moved away from that individualistic conception of resurrection and the afterlife into one of personal transformation, of being able to move past our ego and our selfishness into a state of love and into a state of community."
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 Chur...
2020-04-1107 min