From inside the walls of Rome’s largest prison, Christmas hymns rang out as inmates and prison guards together sang “Silent Night” and exchanged the sign of peace during an intimate Mass led ...
“The first Holy Door I opened at Christmas in St. Peter’s. I wanted the second one to be here, in a prison,” Pope Francis told the inmates on Dec. 26. “I wanted each of us here, inside and ...
Rows of stalls brimming with the thick fragrance of attars, the gentle gleam of tasbihs, countless varieties of prayer mats and religious caps — this is a scene common at the city's Baitul ...