More Father Boyle

By Chuck Milam -
As a follow up to our earlier visit to Homeboy Industries, the following story appeared in today's LA Times:
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Father Gregory Boyle of Homeboy Industries puts compassionate pen to paper
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The founder of a well-known gang-intervention program has written his memoir, 'Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion.'

By Celeste Fremon

March 17 2010

For the last 20 years, Father Gregory Boyle has been writing -- and not writing -- the book that is his newly released memoir, "Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion" (Free Press: 220 pp., $25). The difficulty was never a lack of material. For as long as I've known him, Boyle has been amassing a stupendously rich cache of stories about the homeboys and homegirls who one way or another found their way to his doorstep.

The complete article can be viewed at:

http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-et-father-boyle17-2010mar17,0,94359.story

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