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Jesuit priest and founder of Homeboy Industries, author of Tattoos on the Heart.
Who is Father Gregory Boyle
A city with common gang activity does the Father Boyle live and give his ministry in
What is Los Angeles
Said “Can I admit something? I came here expecting monsters. But that’s not what I found.”
Who is Mike Wallace
Given to the gang members by Father Boyle through jobs and opportunities to improve
What is a second chance
Year when Tattoo's on the heart was published
When was 2010
Famous film producer and talent agent that helped fund Homeboy Industries
Who is Ray Stark
The Homeboy Industries business that gets burned down.
What is Homeboy Bakery
Said "Our image of who God is and what’s on God’s mind is more tiny than it is troubled. It trips more on our puny sense of God than over conflicting creedal statements or theological considerations."
Who is Father Boyle
A sense of this builds community and is what makes Homeboy Industries so effective
What is Belonging
Christian denomination to which Father Boyle belongs to
What is Catholicism
Name of the 13 year old boy who forgave his mother after she abused him for years and told him "you are garbage"
Who is Andre
Name of the church that Father Boyle preaches at
What is Dolores Mission Church
Said "Here is what we seek: a compassion that can stand in awe at what the poor have to carry rather than stand in judgment at how they carry it."
Who is Father Boyle
Felt for the gang members by Father Boyle and by fostering it in Homeboy Industries allows him to break down barriers and build community?
What is Compassion
Common on the people Father Boyle ministers to, with one promising to get one over his heart of something Boyle said to him
What are tattoos
Initially resistant to Father Boyle, he eventually goes for help and gets a job. Tragically, he is gunned down just two days after buying a dress for his daughter's baptism
Who is Jason
Restaurant where Father Boyle, Richie, and Chepe eat and receive hostility from the patrons, but kindness from their server
What is Coco's
Said "...It's like for the first time in my life, I feel, I don't know, what's the word...I feel compassion for what other people suffer."
Type of love that Father Boyle promotes for the gang members that differs from the conditional love they experience in their communities
What is unconditional love
Medal that Tattoos on the Heart received from the University of Notre Dame in 2017
What is the Laetare Medal
Initially resistant to Father Boyle, he eventually goes for help and gets a job. Tragically, he is gunned down just two days after buying a dress for his daughter's baptism
Who is Jason
Father Boyle received an award which he gave to Elias at what University
What is Loyola Marymount University
Place where this quote was given "That's what Jesus did. I mean Compassion...IS...God."
What is Folsom Prison
The danger of this is what causes people to have negative preconceptions of gang members, also spoken about by Chimamanda Adiche in her TED talk
What is the danger of a single story
Common on the people Father Boyle ministers to, with one promising to get one over his heart of something Boyle said to him
What are tattoos