He visited them in the various countries he traveled to and even, for the Jubilee of Hope, decided to open a Holy Door himself at the Rebibbia prison for the first time in history. During his ...

including the opening of a Holy Door at the Rebibbia prison, which is an Italian prison intended for rehabilitation and social reintegration of inmates, according to the National Catholic Reporter.

Pope Francis spent Holy Thursday visiting those serving time in a Rome prison. Despite recovering from a bout of pneumonia, Francis met with dozens of inmates at Regina Coeli prison as he kept an ...

Even in death, Pope Francis remained a trailblazer — becoming the only pontiff to open, but not close, the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica in what has become a fateful symbol of his papal ...

Francis spent Holy Thursday visiting Rome’s Regina Coeli prison, where he met with nearly ... the celebration for the closing of the Holy Door on Nov. 20, 2016. (Photo by Grzegorz Galazka ...

ROME and LONDON -- Pope Francis arrived on Thursday to meet with inmates at a prison in Rome amid the Catholic Holy Week, making a rare public appearance after his lengthy hospital stay last month.

In an extraordinary witness of Christian love, Pope Francis visited Rome’s Regina Coeli prison just before 3 p.m. this Holy Thursday ... “Every time I enter these doors, I ask myself ...

Pope Francis, 88, will visit Rome’s Regina Coeli prison “in a private way” on Holy Thursday afternoon if his health condition allows it, two Italian news agencies, AGI and ANSA, reported on ...