After her death in 1957, the Carmelite Blessed Maria Crocifissa Curcio was all but forgotten beyond the community she founded outside Rome, until one poet, through a shocking discovery at her daughter’s school, learned of the nun’s extraordinary writing and with it the hunger for the Eucharist in her own life
A few months before I became Catholic my three-year-old daughter attended a summer camp run by the Carmelite nuns at her school in Santa Marinella near Rome. That September, a DVD was sent home – a collage of hundreds of images of kids paddling, playing skittles and having sack races with white-habited nuns. About 45 minutes into the DVD I was struggling to stay awake – until I saw a shot of my daughter sitting beside a dead nun in a glass coffin. &ldquo
02 November 2013, The Tablet
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I used to hear it said that
I used to hear it said that "To know all is to forgive all". Though my own experiences in a long life tend to bear out the wisdom of this understanding, some may not readily accept it as axiomatic. While respecting their hesitance, it can on the other hand hardly be denied that those of us who admit to not yet "knowing all" have no right to make hard judgments against our fellows, much less condemn them to death. "Judge not, that ye be not judged".
Sr Helen Prejean has been a tireless campaigner against the death penalty initially in Louisiana and has written two books against it, the first Dead Man Walking was made into a film.
I am delighted the groundswell is moving in the right direction.