Editorial: The Lord Is With Us
John Looby, S.J. - 01 August 2010
After a five hour journey in a stifling Greyhound Bus I arrived in Los Angeles. Another hour and I was standing in the Capuchin Church of St. Laurence of Brindisi, in the middle of Watts. It was really a very large black ghetto and we were almost the only white people in the whole area.
Sensing my awkwardness Fr. Peter suggested we take a walk. So in the early evening, after he had changed into the Franciscan habit we walked through their parish in Watts. He introduced me to people. They welcomed me to Watts as if it was the grandest of resorts, and I began to feel at home.
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