“Church must be present in prisons”: Catholic Bishop in Mauritius at Jubilee of Prisoners Launch

“Church must be present in prisons”: Catholic Bishop in Mauritius at Jubilee of Prisoners Launch

The ongoing Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee Year offers an opportunity for the Church to be closer to prisoners, Bishop Jean Michaël Durhône of the Catholic Diocese of Port-Louis in Mauritius has said. In his Sunday, June 20 homily during the launch of the Diocese’s Jubilee of Prisoners, Bishop Durhône called for compassion, inclusion, and renewed dignity for inmates, many of whom he said are young people grappling with drug addiction. According …