” “"It is an important and significant moment in the history of the Institute, above all, because Benedict XVI chose exactly the minors’ prison as his first visit to the penitentiary world". With those words, Father Gaetano Greco, chaplain of the Penitentiary Institute of Casal del Marmo in Rome, commented to SIR the visit which Pope Ratzinger is going to pay to the minors’ institute on Sunday. And he added: "This means paying special attention to the issues of the young and of the adolescents, and in particular, of the young living in difficult or poverty situations. And I think this is a particularly important element: making the whole world focus on those problems". The visit chosen by Pope Benedict XVI went on Father Greco, is pastoral. This, in religious circles, means that the Pope intends to take into consideration daily life, which the Pope wants to know, by getting informed about it". "We shall beg the Pope concluded Father Greco, for taking us in his heart through his visit, which shouldn’t be just a one-day visit. The Pope celebrating the Eucharist among us is the highest acknowledgment for everything we have experienced, hoped for, and dreamt of". At present, the minors held at the Penitentiary Institute for Minors in Casal del Marmo are about fifty, and mainly foreigners. The "Volontari Casal del Marmo" Association, founded by Father Greco himself, operates within the Institute. ” ” ” “
