Father Boyle to open Home of the Angels, and offer pumpkin bread!
FATHER BOYLE, founder of Homeboy Industries.
The former site of the Monastery of the Angels—a four-acre gated hillside property in Hollywood—will be transformed into a Homeboy Industries residential treatment facility.
The transformation will be subtle, retaining the site’s character. Buildings, courtyards, gardens, and walking paths will remain intact, with no exterior changes, according to the Homeboy website.
And, Homeboy has said it will continue to sell the beloved pumpkin bread baked by nuns on the premises for decades.
PLANS include once again selling the beloved pumpkin bread—previously baked by nuns on the site.
Candy will also be sold, as was traditionally offered by the nuns, once the transition is final. In addition, the facility will offer a chapel for the community to pray.
The largest gang rehabilitation, intervention, and reentry organization in the world, Homeboy is run by Father Greg Boyle, a Windsor Square native.
The site is expected to open in 2027 to serve adults connected to Homeboy through its programs and referrals.
The facility includes 50 residential treatment beds and 40 outpatient slots and will support residential treatment and outpatient services.
Nestled in the Hollywood Hills, the site has been held by the Dominican Order since 1934. The monastery has long served as a place of prayer and service, and in recent years, the Order sought an ally to ensure the site would continue to serve a mission aligned with its values.
“Healing happens when people are received with tenderness and held in community,” Boyle said in the release.
“Home of the Angels reflects what we have always believed at Homeboy Industries: that people heal when they are seen, cherished, and given a place to belong. By creating spaces rooted in love and dignity, we make room for restoration, hope, and new beginnings,” Boyle added.
“For generations, this monastery has been a place of prayer, quiet service, and sanctuary,” said Sister Joseph Marie of the Child Jesus, O.P., Prioress of the Dominican Sisters of the Monastery of the Angels. “As our community discerned the future of this sacred site, we felt a deep responsibility to entrust it to a steward whose mission reflected our own values. Homeboy Industries has demonstrated a profound commitment to dignity, compassion, and healing for those most in need. In Homeboy, we recognize an ally who honors the spirit of this place and will carry its legacy forward as a refuge of care, restoration, and hope.”
Home of the Angels will strengthen Homeboy Industries’ integrated network of care by adding licensed residential treatment and step-up services coordinated with existing programs at its Chinatown headquarters. The campus will be operated in partnership with Los Angeles Centers for Alcohol and Drug Abuse.
The campus will operate as a secure, supervised treatment environment with managed access, 24/7 staffing, and structured programming.
In spring 2025, Homeboy Industries received state behavioral health infrastructure funding from the California Department of Health Care Services to support acquisition and site adaptation. When completed, the campus is expected to include 50 inpatient treatment beds, 40 outpatient treatment slots, and residential bridge housing to support continuity of care.
Windsor Square roots
Boyle grew up on Norton Avenue, where he was one of eight siblings. He attended St. Brendan church and school and Loyola High School.
As a youth, he frequented Chevalier’s Books, he told us in 2018 during a book signing at the Larchmont Boulevard store. The event drew one of the largest crowds in the store’s then 78 years.
The Chevalier’s talk was focused on Father Boyle’s 2017 book, “Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship,” a collection of stories based on Boyle’s work with former gang members and their families. He’s written several books; the most recent, which he co-authored, is titled “Forgive Everyone Everything.”
His many awards include the California Peace Prize and the 2017 Laetere Medal from the University of Notre Dame, the oldest and most prestigious honor given to American Catholics.
Boyle, often called “Father G,” was ordained a Jesuit priest in 1984; he was set to head a student program at Santa Clara University when a trip to Bolivia, where he met the poorest people in the region, changed his course.
“The poor are trustworthy guides,” he told us in 2017, and “… as luck would have it, [the Los Angeles Archdiocese] needed a pastor at Dolores Mission, which was the poorest parish in the city.”
Dolores Mission Church, a Jesuit parish, is in Boyle Heights, an area that was rife with warring gangs, and Boyle soon got to work.
Boyle and business owners founded Homeboy Industries in Downtown Los Angeles in 1988.
Visit homeoftheangels.org.
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