Saturday, April 15, 2023

Sister Helen Prejean: Her Lies, Deceptions and/or Astounding Willful Ignorance? - A Compilation

Sister Helen Prejean: Her Lies, Deceptions and/or 
Astounding Willful Ignorance? - A Compilation

From: Dudley Sharp, independent researcher, death penalty expert, former opponent, 832-439-2113, Houston, Texas, CV at bottom

“Victims of Dead Men Walking”, by Detective Michael Varnado, in the Faith Hathaway rape/murder, a "Dead Man Walking" case, A very different picture of the killer and justice (1), concentrating on the victim and her survivors. (1).

From the Publisher:  "Dead Family Walking: The Bourque Family Story of Dead Man Walking", by D.D. de Vinci, 2006.
 
"Dead Family Walking" reveals an explosive 1978 courtroom document that defies the ending of Sister Prejean's book (another Oprah guest) which potentially makes her use of the Lord's Prayer in her finale one of the most disrespectful profanations history will ever record, and certainly makes "Dead Man Walking" compete with James Frey's "Million Little Pieces" in their race towards deception."
 
"de Vinci wields your heart in the portrayal of a family's perpetual suffering resulting from a Catholic nun's (Prejean) prior relationship with an executed killer that inspired her exaggeration-filled book, "Dead Man Walking,", which the writer claims destroyed the lives of an American Family.
 
On November 5, 1977 the Bourque's teenage daughter, Loretta, was found murdered in a trash pile near the city of New Iberia, La, lying side-by-side near her boyfriend with three well-placed bullet holes behind each head.
 
"de Vinci's investigative research indicates that Prejean's book is not honest. (Dead Man Walking" murderer) Sonnier revealed shocking information about his relationship with Prejean that still stuns the New Iberia homicide detective to this day.
 
The Bourques got a raw deal from the Church and Prejean. They had to go through much pain and anguish. Sister Prejean has been using the Bourques for her anti-death penalty and got away with it!

2022 Does Truth Matter? Sr. Prejean, The Church & U of Notre Dame 
 
2016   Sister Helen Prejean: Does Truth Matter?

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These two, just below, go together.  I entered two responses to Ford's October 24, 2014 at 2:07 pm post, which rebutted all of his reply, the first in 2014 and the second April 14, 2023 at 9:45 pm, neither have been posted, the later which I saved.
 
2014  Boston College -- Sr. Helen Prejean: More Problems & Full Rebuttal

2014 REBUTTAL To: "God Allows Us to Wake Up”: Sister Helen Prejean Comes to BC, By: Craig A. Ford, Jr., Graduate Students of Color Blog, 10/11/14,
http://bcgsca.wordpress.com/2014/10/11/god-allows-us-to-wake-up-sister-helen-prejean-comes-to-bc/

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2014    Sr. Helen Prejean: "Botched" Nun
 
 
 
2013 The Woman Caught in Adultery, The Death Penalty & John 8:2-11
 
2009 Sister Helen Prejean & the death penalty: A Critical Review
 
2008 “God, ogre comparison doesn’t fly with interfaith crowd”, Paul A. Anthony, Rocky Mountain News, 03:35 p.m., August 24, 2008.
and the rebuttal from Pope Benedict
“It Is Not ‘Optional’ for Christians to Take Up the Cross”, 8/31/2008) 
https://zenit.org/articles/cross-not-optional-says-benedict-xvi/
 
2004 Death of Truth:  Sister Prejean's Book
The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions
 
If interested:
 
These review the most common discussions regarding religion and the death penalty
 
The Catholic Church & The Death Penalty
12 (14) Factual Errors: 2018 CCC 2267 amendment
 
The Death Penalty: Mercy, Expiation, Redemption & Salvation
 
 
 
30 Examples:  How Death Penalty Abolitionists Value Murderers More Than Their Innocent Victims:
AKA - Full Rebuttal of Sir Richard Branson & His Death Penalty Comments

“Capital Punishment and Magisterial Authority”
"Fastiggi on Capital Punishment and the Change to the Catechism, 
Part I," Edward Feser, 8/26/2023,
Part 2, 8/30/2023

 
"Killing Equals Killing: The Amoral Confusion of Death Penalty Opponents"
https://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2023/03/killing-equals-killing-amoral-confusion.html 

"The Death Penalty: Neither Hatred nor Revenge"
https://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-death-penalty-neither-hatred-nor.html 

"The Death Penalty: Not a Human Rights Violation"
within
 
much more, here:
 
 

1) Research, w/sources, w/fact checking/vetting & critical thinking, as required of everyone in a public policy debate and which rebut all anti-death penalty claims.
 
The media/academic norm is to use anti-death penalty material, refuse to fact check or vet it and avoid all pro-death penalty research and experts. How will you know that is true? You haven't seen this material, prior.

The Death Penalty: Justice & Saving More Innocents
and
Students, Academics & Journalists: Death Penalty Research
(7 pro-death penalty experts listed)


600+ pro death penalty quotes from murder victim's families &
3300+ from some of the greatest thinkers in history
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Partial CV