Personally Speaking ep. 322 (Msgr. James Kelly)

In this episode of Personally Speaking, Msgr. Jim Lisante is joined by Msgr. James Kelly. Msgr. Kelly is a priest from the Diocese of Brooklyn. Born in County Limerick, Ireland, he trained for the priesthood at the Irish College in Rome where he was ordained in 1960. That same year he arrived at St. Brigid’s Church in what is now Bushwick in Brooklyn, NY. In 1977 he was installed as pastor and spent nearly four decades transforming the parish with practical compassion. Msgr. Kelly recognized the growing legal needs of immigrants, who were mostly low-income residents, and he earned a law degree from St. John’s University in 1980. He went on to offer free legal counsel and assistance, particularly in immigration matters.