(“We told them they had to go up to Oglethorpe Street” where the new animal shelter was, he said.) His father was a millworker in Erie, Pa., turning coal into coke for the furnaces of the steel industry. “He was injured very, very badly and had many years of not being able to work,” said Adams, 76. “The nuns and the priest were pretty good about helping us in lots of different ways,” he said. It was that experience — being destitute, getting help — that inspired Adams to become a priest.

Source: Washington Post November 22, 2017 20:52 UTC