Father Gregory Boyle has an ambitious plan to expand Homeboy Industries

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Father Gregory Boyle, author of 'Barking to the Choir,' has an ambitious plan to expand his circle of compassion with Homeboy housing.

for breakfast and a conversation with author Héctor Tobar about his book and his work with formerly gang-involved youth and adults.

His focus now is on healing the “whole person,” which Boyle describes as the only way to make sure clients stay clean and don’t reoffend.Homeboy currently offers access to various sober-living facilities and temporary housing. But Boyle longs for something more permanent. He says the nonprofit now has approval from its board of directors to make this dream a reality by adding transitional housing near Homeboy headquarters on West Bruno Street, at the edge of L.A.’s Chinatown.

In “Barking to the Choir,” Boyle preaches the “power of radical kinship,” the idea that everyone belongs in what he calls the “circle of compassion,” including people who have committed acts of terrible violence. Father Gregory Boyle consoles gang members in February 1990 as they visit a grave. Boyle recently buried his 231st young person killed as a result of gang violence.

 

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