A cool air fills the bare, white-walled church as hundreds of people
clad in T-shirts, jeans, and backward hats cram into the makeshift pews.
The congregation watches on as a girl, no more than 5 or 6 years old,
is lifted and dipped into a baptismal font.
Her pink Croc draws closer to the ceiling, as a blessing is incanted. It quickly comes back down, and smiles break out across the room. Padre Pepe Di Paola (known as Padre Pepe), 54, has just completed one of five baptisms in Villa Carcova, one of the poorest neighborhoods on the northern outskirts of Buenos Aires.
https://sojo.net/articles/meet-slum-priests-argentina-picking-where-pope-francis-left
Her pink Croc draws closer to the ceiling, as a blessing is incanted. It quickly comes back down, and smiles break out across the room. Padre Pepe Di Paola (known as Padre Pepe), 54, has just completed one of five baptisms in Villa Carcova, one of the poorest neighborhoods on the northern outskirts of Buenos Aires.
https://sojo.net/articles/meet-slum-priests-argentina-picking-where-pope-francis-left