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Hoodlum Priest Inspires Film About Crime and Reform
In St Louis a Jesuit priest Father Charles Clark defuses a holdup by a hoodlum and later inspires The Hoodlum Priest film. Clark, ordained in 1932, founded Dismas House to help convicts adapt, guiding many to work and stay out of crime. He traveled prisons advising and aiding troubled youths.
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