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Podcast: Beyond the Crucible
Episode: From the Mob to Ministry: Robert Borelli
Description: His childhood was something out of a mafia movie — boy attracted to what he saw as the glamour of the flashy toughs in his working-class New York City neighborhood. And Robert Borelli's story was not headed for a happy ending.What began as running errands for the mobsters he idolized turned into committing crimes that escalated in their violence and an addiction to drugs that robbed him of the respect he worked so hard to get.But Borelli's story did a sharp 180-degree turn to redemption when a question from his young daughter while he wa...