Recovering Pope Francis visits Rome prison to keep annual Holy Week appointment

Pope Francis has visited Rome’s main prison and kept an Easter season appointment to spend Holy Thursday among the least fortunate. That's despite his continuing convalescence from a life-threatening bout of pneumonia. The motorcade carrying Francis entered the Regina Caeli prison in Rome’s Trastevere neighborhood just before 3 p.m. The Vatican said Francis would meet with 70 inmates. It’s a prison Francis has visited before to perform the annual Holy Thursday ritual of washing the feet of 12 people to re-enact Christ’s humble gesture of service when he washed the feet of his 12 apostles before his crucifixion.