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Last Friday the participants in the International Meeting of Prison Chaplains met with Pope Francis. In the front row on the right side of the photo you will see our own Senior Catholic Prison Chaplain, Sr Veronica Casey PBVM. Pope Francis who has often visited prisoners, spoke about his own experience in Buenos Aires:
“I saw several times when I went on the bus in Buenos Aires to a parish of the Villa Devoto area and passed by the Devoto Prison: the line of people going to visit the detained, especially the image of the mothers, the mothers of the detained that everybody saw, because they were in the queue one hour before entering and who then were subjected to security searches, often humiliating. Those women weren’t ashamed if the whole world saw them. Their son was there and they showed their face for their son.” ... See MoreSee Less