When Father Greg Boyle became pastor in an area of Los Angeles that had more gang members per capita than any other place in the country, he figured he could “stick his head in the sand or do something about it.” What he did was start a gang rehabilitation program that has grown over the past 25 years into Homeboy Industries, which was recently profiled in a November episode of “Sunday Morning” on CBS. Two of the Homeboys will be visiting St. Mary’s Ryken to talk with the students and community about how Father Greg has turned their lives around. The presentation on January 22 begins at 6:30 p.m. and will be held in the Media Center on the lower campus of St. Mary’s Ryken at 22600 Camp Calvert Rd., Leonardtown, MD, 20650. The event is free and open to the public. A question-and-answer session will follow the talk. Homeboy Industries, based in Los Angeles, serves high-risk, formerly gang-involved men and women with a host of free services and programs, and operates seven social enterprises that serve as job-training sites, including a diner, a grocery and a bakery. In the 1980s, according to the group’s website, Father Greg Boyle, with […]
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