A Morning With
Father Greg Boyle

Tuesday, March 7
 Moiso Family Pavilion

9:30 – 10:30 A.M. Juniors and Seniors
(parents and Eagle community welcome, space is limited*)

11:20 A.M. – 12:25 P.M. Freshman and Sophomores 
(parents and Eagle community welcome, space is limited*)

*RSVP required; book signing and photo opportunities available after each presentation

ABOUT HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES:Homeboy Industries is the largest gang rehabilitation and re-entry program in the world. For over 30 years, they have stood as a beacon of hope in Los Angeles to provide training and support to formerly gang-involved and previously incarcerated people, allowing them to redirect their lives and become contributing members of their community.

Father Gregory Boyle

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Father Gregory Boyle is a Jesuit priest who founded Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles, the largest gang-intervention, rehabilitation and re-entry program in the world. From 1986 to 1992 Fr. Boyle served as pastor of Dolores Mission Church in Boyle Heights. Dolores Mission was the poorest Catholic parish in Los Angeles that also had the highest concentration of gang activity in the city. Fr. Boyle witnessed the devastating impact of gang violence on his community during the so-called “decade of death” that began in the late 1980s and peaked at 1,000 gang-related killings in 1992. 

In the face of law enforcement tactics and criminal justice policies of suppression and mass incarceration as the means to end gang violence, he and parish and community members adopted what was a radical approach at the time: treat gang members as human beings. In 1988 they started what would eventually become Homeboy Industries, which employs and trains former gang members in a range of social enterprises, as well as provides critical services to thousands of individuals who walk through its doors every year seeking a better life.  

Fr. Boyle is the author of the New York Times-bestseller Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion; Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship; and The Whole Language: The Power of Extravagant Tenderness. He has received the California Peace Prize, been inducted into the California Hall of Fame, been named a presidential Champion of Change; and received the University of Notre Dame’s Laetare Medal, the oldest honor given to American Catholics. 

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