Such Unholy Business
June, 1990
He was like a character out of one of those old Hollywood movies about the tough priest with a heart of gold who battles to save kids on the streets of Hell's Kitchen. His work was lavishly praised by Presidents Reagan and Bush. Both visited his shelter in mid-Manhattan and made it sound like a good thing that Father Bruce Ritter's privately funded program represented three times the entire Federal budget to help these troubled youths. Reagan, ever the bleeding-heart conservative, was not inspir...
