Opinion: Bringing people together was Father Louie's talent. It didn't matter if you were Catholic. [Opinion]
Father Louie, who died at age 91 on March 2 after a lengthy illness, wore his priestly robes over 60 years with honor, believing in his mission: pray for the sick, lay hands on the dying, comfort the sorrowful, correct the errant, and give unwavering love to every soul your life touches.
As counselor, he had an uncanny talent to see through any subterfuge, right to the heart of the matter. With a passion for compassion, he met you where you lived — in that place where you needed to hear the truth. He didn’t mince words. He didn’t sugarcoat the message. His advice was rock-solid, irrefutable, honest. No one could “motivate” like Father Louie. The line outside his confessional often stretched down one aisle and up the other in the church in Little Italy.
Father Louie was passionate about protecting his children from evil. “Do good and our father in heaven will see it and bless it,” he often said. His rule was simple: “Love God because God loves you.” In Father Louie-speak that meant “do good, don’t sin, but if you do sin, ask God to forgive you, and he will. Then, don’t do it again! That’s very important! Now, God bless you — real good!”
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