25-11-2019 23:58 via kvoa.com

Activist Chicago priest, George Clements, dead at age 87

CHICAGO (AP) — The Rev. George Clements, the Chicago priest whose activism led to a television movie about his career, has died. He was 87.
The Archdiocese of Chicago says Clements died Monday but didn’t give a cause of death. The Rev. Michael Pfleger says Clements had been in declining health in recent weeks.
Clements was ordained in 1957. He led the “One Church-One Child” program to help Catholic churches find adoptive parents for orphaned black children. In 1980, Cleme
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