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by bcadmin | Nov 6, 2022 | 2022 Papal Trip to Bahrain - Live Coverage, Bahrain, Catholic Church, Church in the Middle East, lead, News, Papal travel, papal trip, Pope Francis, Prison, Prisoners | 0 |
One day after several family members of inmates on death row were detained, Pope Francis made another appeal on behalf of prisoners, thanking those who minister to them and saying their treatment is a reflection of society as a whole.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 14, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, News, Prison, prison reform | 0 |
Greg Jones has a clear idea when his life changed. It was not in 1998, when he went to prison, or 2007, when he was paroled on a manslaughter charge.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 14, 2022 | Associated Press, Holy Thursday, News, Pope Francis, Prison, Triduum, Vatican | 0 |
Pope Francis traveled to a prison near Rome to wash the feet of a dozen inmates, a Holy Thursday ritual that symbolizes humility and highlights his papacy’s attention to those on society’s margins.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 21, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, News, Pope Francis, Prison, prison ministry, Prisoners, Vatican, Vatican museums | 0 |
Arriving at the Vatican early in morning, a dozen inmates from Rome’s Rebibbia prison brought a basket of breads they had baked before the sun came up.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 30, 2021 | Julian Assange, lead, News, Pope Francis, Prison, Vatican, wikileaks | 0 |
On Palm Sunday, Julian Assange, the Australian founder of WikiLeaks who made headlines in 2010 for publishing thousands of confidential US diplomatic documents, received a personal letter from Pope Francis.
Read MoreWith at least 79 inmates killed in riots in three prisons in Ecuador on Feb. 23, the Catholic bishops are calling for a “humanization” of detention centers.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 26, 2021 | Bishop James Checchio, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of Metuchen, New Jersey, News, Prison, prison justice, prison ministry, prison reform, Prisoners, Prisons | 0 |
The women housed at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility in Clinton, the only women’s prison in the state of New Jersey, seem to have the cards stacked against them.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 30, 2021 | Brazil, Brazilian Conference of National Bishops, Catholic Church, Church in the Americas, COVID-19 pandemic, lead, News, Prison, prison justice, prison ministry, Prisoners, Prisons, torture | 0 |
After Brazil’s prisons imposed restrictive measures to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, complaints of torture in correctional facilities increased by 70 percent, according to the nation’s bishops.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 15, 2021 | Australia, Cardinal George Pell, Features, Magazine, News, Prison, Top Story | 0 |
The extract appearing here is from George Cardinal Pell’s Prison Journal, Volume 1: The Cardinal Makes His Appeal. George Weigel introduced the work to readers of the Catholic Herald in a short essay, which appeared on our website earlier this week. Both the extract and Weigel’s essay are featured in the January / February issue of the Catholic Herald.
The post An extract from Cardinal Pell’s Prison Journal, Volume 1 appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 1, 2020 | capital punishment, Catholic Church, Catholic Mobilizing Network, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Death penalty, News, Prison, prison ministry, Prisoners | 0 |
Incarceration is “a central moral challenge of our time,” said Danielle Sered, the founding director of the restorative justice organization Common Justice.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 30, 2020 | Feature3, justice and peace, News, Philippines, Prison | 0 |
Start with Young Offenders, Filipino Bishop Says
The post Want to Serve Prison Ministry? appeared first on ZENIT – English.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 7, 2020 | capital punishment, Catechism of the Catholic Church, Dostoyevsky, Joseph Bessette, News, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Francis, Pope John XXIII, Pope St. John Paul II, Prison, St. Thomas Aquinas, The Dispatch | 0 |
Editor’s note: This essay was originally posted on September 15, 2019. It is reposted in light of new statements by Pope Francis, in the encyclical Fratelli tutti, that, “Today we state clearly that ‘the death […]
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