His "family" call him 'GDog'... and one of my 'saints' like NCR spoke about in a recent column. Fr. Boyle is that kind of saint that fits a space in hearts that have been through hard times. 
I still remember something from the book Tattoos on the Heart. It was another one of those affirmations of discernment to go look deeper into the Spirituality of Waiting. A young man explained why he would never go back to prison. It was because I couldn't let go of the memory of his Mom riding 7 buses to come to visit him in prison. Wow.  And, you know, no one - ever - talks about the profound love that is the grace of 'waiting'.  I put the book down when I came to that... it was a while before I picked it up again and finished it.

What Fr. Boyle did -- is NOT the important part. HOW he did it! that's the important part. He offers a model of social justice on the curb of the 'hood that speaks wisdom and truth. 

"Nothing stops a bullet like a job"   G-Dog aka Fr. Boyle.