Women in Christianity the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her work in "bringing help to suffering humanity". Much admired by Pope John Paul II, she was beatified in 2003, just six years after her death. Many Christian women and religious have been prominent advocates in social policy debates—as with American nun Helen Prejean, a Sister of Saint Joseph of Medaille, who is a prominent campaigner against the Death Penalty and was the inspiration for the Hollywood film "Dead Man Walking". Linda Woodhead states that, "Of the many threats that Christianity has to face in modern times, gender equality is one of the
Carrie Prejean In an incident that occurred while promoting the book, Prejean left the set during an interview on "Larry King Live", after King asked her why she settled her lawsuit with the Miss California USA pageant, calling the host "inappropriate." On July 2, 2010, Prejean married former NFL quarterback Kyle Boller in San Diego, California. On November 11, 2010, they announced that they were expecting a child in May 2011. The couple's first child arrived on May 11, a girl named Grace Christina. She and Boller next had a son named Brody, born in 2013. Carrie Prejean Caroline Michelle "Carrie" Prejean