The cockeyed iron crucifix inside St. Miriam Catholic Church in Roxborough is just one clue that this is no ordinary Catholic parish.
Searing is a great critics' word that must be used rarely and carefully. So much film stuff that's supposed to shock your soul is just special effects that may cook emotions, but doesn't leave them juicy.
Kevin Carroll, 50, left the Army in 1979 and became "a slave to heroin."
His addiction, he said, took him to low places. He's fished for meals from trash cans, slept on the streets, even curled up inside Dumpsters.


