'Vatican star gazer' says new website promotes Church's support for science
- Apr 9, 2021
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Pope sends letter to infamous WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange
- Mar 30, 2021
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.
After deadly riots, Ecuador’s bishops call for ‘evaluation’ of prison system
- Feb 27, 2021
With 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.
Bishop: Reports of women prisoners being abused are ‘disgusting, shameful’
- Feb 26, 2021
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.
As pandemic spreads in Brazil’s prisons, inmates complain of torture
- Jan 30, 2021
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.
Speaker: Incarceration ‘a central moral challenge of our time’
- Nov 1, 2020
Incarceration is “a central moral challenge of our time,” said Danielle Sered, the founding director of the restorative justice organization Common Justice.
NGO’s programs in Brazil, Kenya produce masks to help contain COVID-19
- Jul 14, 2020
With COVID-19 contagions climbing in several countries around the world, an Italian NGO with ties to the Catholic Church has implemented projects for the mass production of masks to help the most vulnerable populations.
Inmate lived inspiring Catholic life behind bars, ‘serving God, not time’
- Jun 27, 2020
In 1993, 39-year-old nuclear engineer Hal Elkins hit the bottle and fell into a jealous rage and shot his girlfriend, Kathryn Linn, and the man she was with, Marvin Eugene Mayer. Within a decade, other inmates would be calling Elkins “the Bishop of OSP.”
Pope highlights prisoners’ unique ‘Way of the Cross’ on Good Friday
- Apr 10, 2020
Meditations for Pope Francis’s “Via Crucis” ceremony on Good Friday were written by prisoners and their families, as well as crime victims and their families.
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