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From Her Majesty's Prison...
Letters sent by young Italian drug addicts and AIDS victims to Father Carmelo di Giovanni the priest of the prisons of England.
Edited by: Francesco Strazzari
Translated by: Sebastian Cresswell-Turner
Light from behind the bars
Letters from the Red Brigades and other former Italian terrorists: true stories of terror, agony and hope.
This book is a selection from thousand of letters written by sixteen Italian terrorists both of the "red" (Red Brigade, Front Line) and "black" factions (Nerw Order, NAR) to a catholic priest.
The letters bear witness to God's infinite mercy which goes beyond the stigmas with which society brands those who have been stained with the most atrocious crimes, offering to these "monsters" who often hit the headlines, the chance of regeneration, and speak to those young people who still dream of changing society, here and now, by means of violence.
A rebel priest
Fr. Carmelo Di Giovanni, priest of the order of the Pallottine Fathers, from the Calabria region, priest of St. Peter's Italian Church in London, is one of the most controversial figure of the pastoral history of today.
These pages tell his story with a passionate introduction by Mariapia Bonante.
"We have been together, Chiara and I, on the streets of Soho, Trafalgar Square, Piccadilly Circus, where at each corner are his children, his lost sheep's, those that arrive at every hour, day or night to knock at the door of St. Peter to unload all their desperation. We have listened his words, that speak of hope and Resurrection, even when the road is leading to hell..."
Priests
On the footsteps of the twelve Apostles.
Stories of love, hope and resurrection.