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Saint Los Angeles of the May 2013 Hood: with homeboy industries, father Gregory Boyle has turned the nation's gang capital into an unlikely place of redemption. Behind one of L.A.'s great stories of moral uplift lies a 25-year struggle between a priest's unlimited compassion and a city's harshest realities
- Source :
- Los Angeles Magazine. May, 2013, Vol. 58 Issue 5, p102, 10 p.
- Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- THE WALLS OF Father Gregory Boyle's office at Homeboy Industries are encrusted with family photos. Somewhere there's a snapshot of his 88-year-old mother, Kay, though she's all but lost among [...]
- Subjects :
- Boyle, Greg -- Biography
Priests -- Biography
Travel, recreation and leisure
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 15229149
- Volume :
- 58
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Gale General OneFile
- Journal :
- Los Angeles Magazine
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- edsgcl.329303339