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Byline: Manya A. Brachear
Jun. 13--From the time he was a 20-year-old seminarian, Rev. Larry Craig devoted his life to the forgotten faithful by comforting juveniles behind bars. Later, as an ordained priest, he reached out to their families by launching the Chicago archdiocese's prison and jail ministries.
"The truth is that no one is 100 percent clean and no one is 100 percent dirty," he told the Tribune in 2000. "In any given congregation, you have saints and sinners together--you just don't know which is which." Father Craig, founder and executive director of Kolbe House Catholic Prison Ministry, died in his sleep Saturday, June 10, at the…
Source: HighBeam Research, Rev. Larry Craig: 1947-2006Founder of ministry for imprisoned.