Dead Man Walking:

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...ital punishment...

...curities and assurances of the previous ed by the death penalty, but she is not As a political scientist, it was refresh- system...

...M. Div...

...death row when she agreed to correspond and the Catholic church...

...Degree or equivalent re- New Directions named Vernon Harvey...

...Shock therapy" was set in mo- will be the certain results of the popula- Walking, not simply as its narrator, but tion by economic theory, but its long-term tion's rejection at the polls of radical re- as the person most affected by the comsuccess depends on the enduring politi- form...

...As an Yet Robert Lee Willie's execution theology or related field is required...

...A master's in ideas that impel them...

...Georgetown University recent times, it is unquestionably is an affirmative action/equal opportunity em- a volume of major importance...

...University of , B 9 3j 99 Spring of 1993 in Poland on a Fulbright grant.Gift card included...

...These events are a victory of political plex quandaries and the simple pain surcal support of a "shocked" population...

...Prejean describes herself as "an ordi- perhaps thought deeply about capital pun30: 19 November 1993 Commonweal ishment, who has never been personally New from affected by the death penalty, suddenly confronted with its reality...

...Preference for women ap- conflict in the Catholic Church...

...El road after the execution...

...Vibrant, Catholic student community The most convincing argument against seeks full-time campus minister to work contemporary diversity and the death penalty, and one of the book's with Paulistpriest...

...and witnessing his death in the electric To be sure, the sometimes narrow perfter a protected up- chair...

...The theologian Bernard Haring The Frontiers they detract from her book, they may points out [London Tablet, October 23] that help to make her evolving beliefs about for John Paul II "the wrongness of con- of Catholicism the death penalty more convincing...

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...When meeting with victims' families, the focus is on Prejean's ambivalence about consoling the murderers, her fear of confronting the NO PEACE IN VENGEANCE families, her inability to absorb the families' pain...

...Sachs correctly points out, the Polish a clear warning signal to economic re- For example, we primarily learn of people, a people who have experienced formers throughout the region...

...nary person [who] gets involved in exand into an unsettling sense of insecurity In fact, for Sachs and other devotees traordinary events...

...As reality over economic theory, and, as such, rounding the death penalty...

...299 Elizabeth St., Berkeley Los Angeles New York Londo ers under sentence of death...

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...Prejean is not preaching only A% middle-class Catholic alities of the death penalty in the United to the converted...

...Just $26, published quarHILARY HOCHMAN, a graduate of Yale Law terly...

...Why does the Catholic Church tion for killing, by the government or the Well, you asked...

...To explain as she visits inmates and families is some- these apparent contradictions, Pastoral Associate for Campus Ministry at times effective...

...while stances...

...People may have diffiSaint Joseph of Medaille, where, until As the spiritual adviser to death-row in- culty envisioning themselves or someone 1980, she led a comparatively sheltered mates, Prejean was troubled by her in- close to them as the victim of a homicide existence as a teacher and novice coun- ability to comfort their victims' families...

...A return to a command economy herself one of those people...

...take a politically conservative individual...

...Dead Man Walking is an account After one family expressed their hurt that is too alien and extreme to invite empaof her subsequent journey from working she did not visit with them, Prejean began thy...

...Vernon Harvey still grieves and still rages, and has no ob- Gift Suggestion 1991 Albert C. Outler Prize in ject on which to focus his anger...

...She is not ing for me to see the degree to which is out of the question...

...Send resume, which should include in Cultural Analysis Harvey when she advises Robert Lee academic, pastoral/work experience, and any $40.00 cloth Willie, convicted of raping and brutally additional skills, along with 500-word essay murdering Harvey's teen-age stepdaugh- on your personal qualifications for campus ter...

...Deadline: ally damaging movements of satisfied, spinning out fantasies of cruel- December 6,1993...

...for its connection with Russian domina- fragile that trust is...

...Communism of shock therapy, the recent national elec- herself a disservice, for throughout her is disparaged for its obvious failures, and tion in Poland ought to suggest just how book she displays courage and honesty...

...For traception is much more absolute than the in the end she reaffirms the conviction with commandment 'Thou shalt not kill...

...the situation selor...

...Search exposure of one of the most brings Vernon Harvey no peace...

...most fully developed portraits, is a man plicants...

...Most death row inmates are compelling and vivid characters...

...Prejean works not only with these men but with many of the more colorful figures in DEAD MAN WALKING Prejean first met a man on Louisiana's Louisiana politics, death penalty litigation, Helen Prejean, C.S.J...

...er methods of execution which would, he ployer...

...But capitalism has turned out to be Democratic Left Alliance, the so-called identify a problem with Dead Man a system in which some people get tremen- post-Communists, has brought into bold Walking...

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...She may be doing for the population as a whole...

...it is The Politics of Ideology which she began: the death penalty serves clear, he wrote, that the pope would allow in a Liberal World no purpose other than raw retribution, and the prohibition against killing to be set aside GENE BURNS there is no ethical or scriptural justifica- in instances of self-defense or a just war...

...Years Committee, Georgetown University, Healy socially explosive and intellectulater, Vernon Harvey is still angry and dis- 113, Washington, DC 20057-1032...

...Judging from her book, she along, hoping for the best, but aware that ile democracy...

...But larger old-age under sentence of death, nor has she sufSachs recognizes that Poland's current pensions, slower privatization, and greater fered the murder of a loved one...

...faith campus ministry team...

...The success of the But her modest self-description does tion...

...with Elmo "Pat" Sonnier, who was fac- only shadows on the page, figures to ing execution for the murder of two teen- whom Prejean reacts...

...Yet they are all Random House, $21, 278 pp...

...Burns examines the origins of MIT...

...Quite than they are the servants of an impatient proaches, her vomiting by the side of the, understandably, this trust does not come and deeply worried public...

...In search of: Georgetown University Campus New in paperback-"A beautiHarvey witnesses Willie's execution and, Ministry announces a search for a Catholic fully worked case study of the when asked how he feels after the event, woman for a full-time position on an inter- dynamics of people and the answers "Do you want to dance...

...Prejean is necessarily an almost dously rich, some people get frightening- relief the terrible stress that radical eco- peripheral character in many of the events ly poor, and the great middle muddles nomic reform has placed on Poland's frag- she describes...

...Prejean's reactions, her pain and amwith residents of New Orleans housing to meet with the families of homicide vic- bivalence, are more easily understood projects to advising inmates on Louisi- tims, eventually forming a counseling and identified with-she becomes the ana's death row, to counseling crime vic- group for them...

...Commonweal 19 November 1993: 31...

...Washington Post Book World thinks, have satisfied him...

...It is her experiences with the stance on some issues while on men on death row and the victims' fam- others it resembles the Left...

...Prejean is virtually Hilary Hochman agers...

...She became Sonnier's spiritual the only person portrayed with any real adviser, visiting him during his last weeks, depth or complexity...

...At the mo- Prejean's distress in the days before Pat little but tyranny and foreign occupation ment, the practical men and women of Sonnier's execution: of her need to take for two centuries, are being asked to trust Poland are less the slaves of economists sleeping pills, her fear as the date aptheir leaders and trust in the future...

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...Even Ecumenical Church History of the CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR PASTOR AND vengeance has not been served...

...Prejean meets quired...

...Yet she problems are political rather than eco- subsidies to inefficient public industries is the main character of Dead Man nomic...

...Prejean's CORRESPONDENCE Ca Pifo Znt'a naivete and occasional self-absorption (Continued from page 2) are, after all, what almost everyone brings to any unfamiliar ethical problem...

...Dead Man Walking is family in segregated States and to obtain legal assistance for not only a description of Prejean's work, 1950s' Baton Rouge, indigent prisoners under sentence of it is also a meditation on the nature of capHelen Prejean joined the Convent of death...

...himself...

...Many people have reacted does wonderful work advising and adpersonal catastrophe could be just around to their current distress by recalling the se- vocating for those most directly affectthe corner...

...ilies that convince both her and the read- Why do some Catholic groups er that capital punishment serves no CLASSIFIED reject the legitimacy of Church legitimate end, and it is here that being hierarchy and yet choose to drawn so completely into her perspective Position Opening remain within it...

...The experience led her to organize spective of Dead Man Walking has its adbringing in an upper- efforts to educate the public about the re- vantages...

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...Harvey takes his wife and fourCampus Ministry RONALD L. NUMBERS teen-year-old daughter to stand outside the prison and cheer during executions...

...or as a condemned prisoner...

...Harvey ultimately spends years seek- ministry and the names of 3 persons who The ing the death penalty for Robert Lee would recommend you to: Tech Catholic Willie, even considering killing Willie Community, c/o Search Committee, 312 Creationists Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02139...

...ordinary person, someone who has not tims' families...