The Los Angeles City Council honored Father Greg Boyle, the founder of Homeboy Industries gang intervention program on Friday, by naming Sunday, May 19 Father Greg Boyle Day in Los Angeles.

Father Greg Boyle, center, marches to City Hall from Homeboy Industries with staff and program enrollees for a ceremony marking Father Greg Boyle Day in Los Angeles. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times) ...

LOS ANGELES -- The Los Angeles City Council on Friday recognized Father Gregory Boyle, the founder and director of Homeboy Industries, who recently received the Presidential Medal of Freedom for ...

Father Greg Boyle in his office at Homeboy Industries. (Nani Sahra Walker / Los Angeles Times) Father Greg Boyle, a Jesuit Catholic priest who founded the Homeboy Industries gang intervention program ...

To many, he’s called Father Greg or Father “G.” Over the years, Father Gregory Boyle, founder of the Los Angeles-based Homeboy Industries, the largest gang intervention, rehabilitation and re-entry ...

Father Greg Boyle is having a busy month. The founder of Homeboy Industries, the largest gang intervention and rehabilitation program in the world, Boyle will be honored by the city of Los Angeles on ...

To the editor: Honoring Father Greg Boyle, who runs the L.A. gang intervention program Homeboy Industries, with the Presidential Medal of Freedom was long overdue. Boyle practices the tenets of his ...

Father Gregory Boyle, founder and director of the successful Homeboy Industries gang-intervention and rehabilitation program in Los Angeles, was recognized Friday with a day named in his honor by the ...