Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Father Mac helps keep hopes alive

We try to make too many people out to be saints in my business,but when you come across the real thing, you can't overdo it.

That's why the name of Monsignor Ignatius McDermott, better knownas Father Mac, appears so often in the pages of this newspaper.

The occasion this time is the 25th anniversary of HaymarketCenter.

It's the treatment facility for alcoholics and drug addicts thatFather Mac founded in 1975 as an extension of his life's work withdrunk and homeless men on Skid Row.

Father Mac is 91 or thereabouts. Do the math, and you'll see whata remarkable anniversary this is.

Father Mac founded Haymarket when he was 66, an age when you and Ihope …

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