The pope said we have an obligation to promote in every place “a society established on new criteria, and ultimately on charity.”
Prisons
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Movie Club
‘The Bad Guys 2’ is the best family movie of the summer—and a lesson in restorative justice
The ”Bad Guys” films ask, how do we determine who the “bad guys” are? And if you’re marked as “bad” from the start, can you ever make good?
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Watching ‘The Chosen’ in prison
It is a profound thing, when society has labeled you a criminal and a felon, to think that at the center of the world’s most populous faith tradition is a man whom those in power at the time condemned as a criminal.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Cuba to release 553 prisoners for Jubilee at Pope Francis’ request
The Cuban government announced that it would release hundreds of political prisoners, citing inspiration from Pope Francis’ emphasis on mercy for prisoners during the Jubilee Year.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
The real man behind ‘The Hoodlum Priest’
Charles “Dismas” Clark, S.J., made caring for prisoners his life’s work—a ministry memorialized in 1961’s “The Hoodlum Priest.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
‘Sing Sing’ features the breakout performance of the year: a formerly incarcerated actor playing himself
“Sing Sing” sidesteps the trap of cheap melodrama that exploits the trials and trauma of incarcerated people.
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For the first time, Pope Francis washed the feet of only women at Holy Thursday liturgy
The 12 women whose feet were washed by Pope Francis included women from Italy, Bulgaria, Nigeria, Ukraine, Russia, Peru, Venezuela and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
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Good Friday changed St. Veronica. Her example changed my work as a prison chaplain.
During my time as the assistant Catholic chaplain at a state prison, I learned how chaplains must model their ministry to those who are vulnerable in the same spirit as St. Veronica.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
This Chicago chef teaches inmates to cook. Pope Francis told him to keep going.
He said he told the pope, “I could spend all day here talking to you,” and Francis replied, “So could I!”
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Podcast: The power of vulnerability when preaching in a retreat or parish setting
In this “Preach” episode, Sarah Hansman delivers a homily for the 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A, and shares with host Ricardo da Silva, S.J., how her corporate experience prepared her to take risks and practice vulnerability in preaching.