Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Wednesday, September 7, 2016.
How a meeting with Mother Teresa changed a Chicago gang leader’s life
In 1985 former west-side gang leader Demetrius Ford met Mother Teresa in Chicago, an encounter that changed his life. Ford had been working odd jobs around Saint Malachy’s Church while he tried to get away from gang violence. Mother Teresa, who was made a saint by the Catholic Church over the weekend, prayed for Ford and held his hands in hers. “And that was like the changing point in my life,” he told the Sun-Times. “I was like really feeling down and low. I was running from the police at the time and there were a million awful things going on in my life. And at that moment I just felt relief.” [Sun-Times]
