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Pope Francis Laundries to provide free washers and driers, as well as showers, for those without a fixed abode.
It’s one of those things that many people take for granted. Dirty laundry? Just throw it in the wash.
Not so for people who are forced to sleep on the street or in shelters.
But in Turin, Italy, homeless people now have a couple of places where they can get their clothes cleaned – and get a shower for themselves. And the laundromats are named in honor of Pope Francis, who has taken a special interest in the plight of the homeless.
On Thursday, the Pope’s almoner – the bishop who carries out charitable works in his name – dedicated two new “Pope Francis Laundries” in the northern Italian city.
“When we help the poorest and most vulnerable, we are truly Christians, because we are the means of the Gospel,” the almoner, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, said at a Mass attended by about 200 persons, mostly homeless. “This initiative … is a source of joy for me because this is a further possibility of being close to wounded humanity, a way to demonstrate the presence and closeness of God to the least.”
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aleteia.org
It’s one of those things that many people take for granted. Dirty laundry? Just throw it in the wash.
Not so for people who are forced to sleep on the street or in shelters.
But in Turin, Italy, homeless people now have a couple of places where they can get their clothes cleaned – and get a shower for themselves. And the laundromats are named in honor of Pope Francis, who has taken a special interest in the plight of the homeless.
On Thursday, the Pope’s almoner – the bishop who carries out charitable works in his name – dedicated two new “Pope Francis Laundries” in the northern Italian city.
“When we help the poorest and most vulnerable, we are truly Christians, because we are the means of the Gospel,” the almoner, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, said at a Mass attended by about 200 persons, mostly homeless. “This initiative … is a source of joy for me because this is a further possibility of being close to wounded humanity, a way to demonstrate the presence and closeness of God to the least.”
Businesses’ involvement
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"Pope Francis Laundries" open in Turin for the homeless
Pope Francis Laundries to provide free washers and driers, as well as showers, for those without a fixed abode.
aleteia.org
