Father Brian Gowans
President Kay and Father Brian Gowans Kay is holding a beautiful flower decoration made entirely from phone books by women prisoners in the Philippines! President Kay Wilkie introduced Father Brian Gowans, the Parish Priest at St Joseph’s in Burntisland who was asked to speak in his capacity as Chaplains’ Advisor to the Scottish Prison Service and President of the International Commission of Catholic Prison Pastoral Care. Soroptimists have a particular interest in the rehabilitation work done in women’s prisons and in the efforts being made to help prisoners successfully return into the community and avoid going back to prison in the future. After being asked to temporarily cover for someone at the Young Offender’s Institution Polmont in 1993, Father Brian found that the supply post led him to be involved with working with prisoners (mainly young people) for the next 23 years. In his role