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March 28, 2024

Pope Francis washes feet of women inmates at Rome prison for Holy Thursday

Pope Francis washes the feet of an inmate at the Rebibbia women's prison on the outskirts of Rome as he celebrates the Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord's Supper March 28, 2024. The pontiff washed the feet of 12 inmates at the prison.

As Pope Francis poured water over their feet, dried them with a towel and kissed their feet, 12 women inmates at Rome's Rebibbia prison wept.

Published in Vatican
July 5, 2015

Celebrating Marian icon of love

Fr. Philip Dabney, associate pastor of the Basilica Shrine Church of Our Mother of Perpetual Help in Boston, was presider and homilist for the novena triduum at St. Patrick’s Shrine Church.

TORONTO - In 1866, Pope Pius IX appointed the Redemptorists as custodians of the 15th-century icon of Our Mother of Perpetual Help with the mission to “make her known throughout the world.”

Published in Canada
April 2, 2015

Still astonishing good news 2,000 years later

Pope Francis kisses the foot of a disabled person at Our Lady of Providence Centre during Holy Thursday Mass in Rome last year.

Through the powerful Scripture readings of the Triduum, and especially the Gospels of the Easter Vigil and Easter morning, we catch glimpses of the profound meaning of the Paschal mystery. How can we give expression to the conquest of death and the harrowing of hell? We must honestly admit to ourselves that we have no words.

Published in Guest Faith Columns