Francis says society that ignores its members’ pain is ‘condemned to remain hostage to itself’ during visit to country holding 20% of world’s inmatesPope Francis has urged inmates at a Philadelphia jail to believe in the power of rehabilitation,condemning societies that normalize their suffering, on the final day of his trip to a nation that holds one-fifth of all the world’s prisoners. Speaking at Curran-Fromhold correctional facility, or the Argentinian pontiff told a group of 60 male and 11 female prisoners: “Any society,any family that cannot share or take seriously the pain of its children, and views that pain as something normal or expected, or is a society condemned to remain hostage to itself,prey to the very things which cause that pain.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com