"Prison is a place of death and torture," in Brazil, said Father Silveira. "It is a factory of torture that creates monsters."
The illegal occupation came at the end of a year during which Ireland has seen record numbers forced onto the streets.
Cardinal Tobin said that Christians must be marked by their willingness to show “kindness to all: to the searching young and the forgotten elderly, to the stranger and the voiceless, to the powerful and the cynical.”