knows the territory flint and spanish pastor brendan curran works tirelessly for pilsen mexican project on his busy agenda pastor brendan curran latest in a long line of dominican priest's devoted their lives to pilsen immigrant community assoc. pastor chuck dam blazed the trail >> we want the families to be stronger and assist them in assimilation into this nation >> assoc. pastor chuck dam larger-than-life impact on deniable pilsen mexican-american leaders say the priest giants in the community >> tradition of working with immigrant families living with the people understand the people >> in the fruits of their labor can be seen in the children kids at the parish school are thriving thanks to intense focus of english literacy and comprehension the basic foundation to success in this hard-working community. >> families have never gone to school. trying to learn and put a few words in english together. >> helping immigrants succeed in noble tradition at saint pius dating back centuries bohemians from europe were here along with the germans and published what it was the irish wit

>>the son of an irish immigrant father pastor brendan curran knows that territory ...ses for the casa juan diego project the newest on his agenda is a long line of dominican priest's devoting their lives to the immigrant communities here in telson >>we want the families to be stronger and assist them and their assimilation >>mexican-american leaders say the priests are giants in this community >>there's a tradition of these dominican priests and working with these immigrant families they live with these people they understand them >>the fruits of their labor can be seen in the children the children's at the parish school are thriving thanks to english literacy and comprehension teachings the basic foundation of the success of this hard- working community >>we have parents who never went to school ... >>helping children succeed is a noble tradition here at st. pius ... german and polish emigrants and irish who laid the cornerstone ... >>it was mostly immigrant workers from ireland to lay the foundation of this church here they built the south branch canal of the chicago