Columnist LATstevelopez writes his latest on Homeboy Industries and 'L.A. kid-turned-Jesuit priest' Father Greg Boyle.
Coffeecake was the bakery special, chicken pozole the Homegirl Cafe lunch special, the tattoo removal center would be open soon. And a prayer was offered for five female gang members headed to a retreat.
Father Greg Boyle meets with Johnny Chavez, who wears a T-shirt with one of Homeboy Industries' mottos, in his Los Angeles headquarters. The other person who said hello was Joani Noneman. She said that she was a retired nurse, and that she had been volunteering in the tattoo removal clinic one day a week for six years.Father Boyle and I had coffee at Homegirl Cafe and talked about his “,” the book we’ll be discussing Saturday.
Boyle stands with them, on the margins, yesterday, today and tomorrow, opening doors instead of slamming them shut. He gives them an ear, he gives them prayer, he gives them a chance to decide they’re done with one thing and ready for another.“No hopeful kid has ever joined a gang,” Boyle writes. “No kid is seeking anything when he joins a gang, he’s always fleeing something.”
“I’m a 60-year-old white woman and I would go into the morning meetings and sit in my little chair, and what I was most afraid of was that they wouldn’t accept me,” Noneman said. “Slowly but surely I was able to come out of my shell and was totally embraced by the community. Now I feel it’s my home away from home.”
The day after I met with Boyle, I went back and found Alex working in the Homeboy store, where shirts and hats and other gear are sold to help support the programs. I asked how he came to know Boyle.“I was 11,” he said. “It was in juvenile hall.”
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