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SAN DIEGOSAN DIEGO — The man is gone, but the legacy of the priest who helped countless homeless San Diegans will live on.
That was the message from fellow clergy members, past colleagues, supporters and a former homeless man who were among the speakers who remembered Father Joe Carroll at a public celebration of life Tuesday morning.
Fittingly, the memorial was held inside the San Diego Convention Center’s Hall H, which had held hundreds of Father Joe’s Village’s clients when the venue was converted into a homeless shelter last year during the pandemic.
The Very Rev. Monsignor Dennis Mikulanis, who delivered the invocation, also noted that Tuesday was the Feast of St. Lawrence, patron saint of poor people, among others. When a Roman emperor demanded Lawrence bring him the treasure of the church, he returned with the poor of the city and said, “Here is the treasure of the church.”
“That’s what Father Joe did in his life,” Mikulanis said. “He showed us the treasure of the church.”
Carroll died July 10 at 80.
A Bronx native who came to San Diego in the 1970s, Carroll was ordained in 1974 and was asked to take over the St. Vincent de Paul thrift shop and create a homeless center in the early 1980s
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SAN DIEGO — His name is synonymous with programs that help homeless San Diegans, but Father Joe Carroll reveals something surprising in a new book about his life.
“I told him I didn’t want the job,” he wrote about the day in 1982 when Bishop Leo Maher told him he was being assigned to lead the St. Vincent de Paul Center.
At the time, Carroll was head of St. Rita’s Parish, and he had no interest in being anything but a parish priest. He asked the bishop why he wanted him to lead the center that was focused on helping homeless people.
“He looked me straight in the eye and replied, ‘I asked a bunch of priests who they thought the biggest wheeler and dealer hustler was in our diocese, and your name was the only name on the list,’” he wrote about the bishop’s reply.
The anecdote is one of about 70 compiled in “Father Joe: Life Stories of a Hustler Priest,” released April 12, Carroll’s 80th birthday.
Although retired 11 years, Carroll still is hustling. He has signed copies of his book available to anyone who buys it directly from www.FatherJoeHustlerPriest.com, and he said he plans to use an upcoming TV appearance to also promote “Sleepy Bear,” a sleep-inducing gummy bear made with cannabis compounds and melatonin that was developed by his grand nephew, Patrick Carroll.
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