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MEET THE KEYNOTE: Fr. Greg Boyle, S.J.

John,
This November 15-17, be a part of the largest annual Catholic social justice conference in the U.S., where you will hear from powerful speakers, including Greg Boyle, S.J., the founder of Homeboy Industries ([link removed]) in Los Angeles, California.
"There is no force in the world better able to alter anything from its course than love.”

Fr. Greg Boyle S.J.
ABOUT FR. GREG BOYLE S.J.,

Father Gregory Boyle is the founder of Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles, the largest gang-intervention, rehabilitation, and re-entry program in the world.

Born and raised in Los Angeles and Jesuit priest, 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 2010 New York Times-bestseller Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion. He has written numerous other books including: Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship, published in 2017; The Whole Language: The Power of Extravagant Tenderness, published in 2021; and Cherished Belonging: The Healing Power of Love in Divided Times, published in 2024.

He has received the California Peace Prize and been inducted into the California Hall of Fame. In 2014, President Obama named Fr. Boyle a Champion of Change. He received the University of Notre Dame’s 2017 Laetare Medal, the oldest honor given to American Catholics. Homeboy Industries was the recipient of the 2020 Hilton Humanitarian Prize validating 32 years of Fr. Greg Boyle’s vision and work by the organization for over three decades.
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"Sometimes resilience arrives in the moment you discover your unshakeable goodness.'"

Fr. Greg Boyle S.J.

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