Sister Helen Prejean featured speaker at 74th Salesian Guild
![Sister Helen Prejean speaking to the 74th annual Salesian Guild (CT Photo/Greg Hartman)](http://www.thecatholictelegraph.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/DSC_0131-1024x683.jpg)
On February 3rd, Sister Helen Prejean was the keynote speaker at the 74th annual Salesian Guild held at St. Xavier Church in downtown Cincinnati.
Sister Helen, a member of the Congregation of Saint Joseph, is a leading advocate to abolish the death penalty in the United States. Her book Dead Man Walking became a best-seller and was made into a movie starring Sean Penn and Susan Sarandon in 1995, and later premiered as an opera in San Francisco in 2000.
Here is Sister Helen’s keynote address:
![Sister Helen Prejean and as she said with a good friend and mentor, Father George Wilson SJ (CT Photo/Greg Hartman)](http://www.thecatholictelegraph.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/DSC_0156-1024x683.jpg)
![Sister Helen Prejean with The Catholic Telegraph's own Sister Eileen Connelly OSU (CT Photo/Greg Hartman)](http://www.thecatholictelegraph.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/DSC_0158-1024x683.jpg)
Check our website in the near future for more stories on Sister Helen’s visit.