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Mercy Home and several faith, educational, and community organizations co-sponsored a gathering at a packed St. Barnabas Church that addressed the city’s epidemic of violence. The event was hosted by the Southside Catholic Peace and Justice Committee as part of its You Are My Neighbor event series.
After a welcome by St. Barnabas Pastor Fr. James Donovan, and a rendition of “We Are Called” by the St. Barnabas Choir, organizer Maureen Gainer Reilly said that the series was born of a desire to do the real work of the Church, adding that “love your neighbor is a command.”
The lineup of speakers included local Chicago changemakers and former Los Angeles gang members who have found new life and direction through Homeboy Industries, a California-based gang intervention, rehabilitation and re-entry program. Author and Homeboy Industries founder, Rev. Gregory J. Boyle, S.J., headlined the event. Fr. Boyle argued that the best violence prevention program is one that helps address past trauma and encourage connectedness for those who are poor, powerless, and voiceless.
“You want to imagine a circle of compassion and imagine no one sitting outside it,” he said, adding that we need to continue to go to the margins until the margins disappear.
“We stand with the demonized so that the demonization will stop,” Fr. Boyle said. “We stand with the disposable so that we stop throwing people away.”
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