Father Greg Boyle, founder of Homeboy Industries, receives Presidential Medal of Freedom

Back in 1988, Father Boyle founded what would become Homeboy Industries in East L.A., which has now helped thousands of Angelenos. "Father Greg Boyle, who has changed countless lives as pastor of a disadvantaged Catholic parish in Los Angeles ... through your pioneering gang intervention programs, your service as a Jesuit priest over four decades, reminds us the power of redemption and rehabilitation and our obligation to those who have been condemned or counted out," said President Joe Biden during …