This Lent, we are going to share with you excerpts from Keeping Hope: A Resource for Families and Friends of the Incarcerated. Written by Karen Henning Heuberger and Ron Zeilinger “Facing Your Own Sentence: Where do you begin?” I felt shock and disbelief. Then confusion, then fury, then sadness. When you first found out that […]
This is the first blog in our 2024 Lenten Blog Series. This Lent, we are going to share with you excerpts from Keeping Hope: A Resource for Families and Friends of the Incarcerated. Written by Karen Henning Heuberger and Ron Zeilinger “Outmates” Your loved one may have gone to trial, or may have taken a […]
Today, Pope Francis traveled to a prison near Rome to wash the feet of a dozen inmates, a Holy Thursday ritual that symbolizes humility and highlights his papacy’s attention to those on society’s margins. Pope Francis has made it a tradition since the beginning of his papacy to celebrate the Mass and foot-washing ritual on Holy […]