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A religious community for ex-prison inmates is set to open later this year in Sedamsville, where two potentially violent or sex offenders will live in a house with a Catholic priest or monk.
An initiative to help former inmates reenter society and grow in their Catholic faith is the winner of a $10,000 award sponsored by the University of Notre Da.
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, which was closed in 1989 and sold, which the Serenelli Project is hoping to purchase (left), and a home for ex-inmates reentering society owned by the Serenelli Project (right). / Credit: Serenelli Project
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