Bishop Malloy Offers Words of Hope At Second Jail Christmas Mass

Date: January 9, 2015

ROCKFORD—At his second Christmas Mass for male inmates at the Winnebago County Jail, Bishop Malloy shared a brief conversation he had had a few hours earlier after midnight Mass.

After Mass, as he greeted people outside the Cathedral of St. Peter, a man and woman came up. The man introduced himself as someone who had been to his Christmas Mass at the jail last year, as an inmate.

“There he was,” Bishop Malloy said, and he happily reported that the man expressed his gratitude for the 2013 Mass, then told him that “all is going well now."

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