Scenes From a Parish

By James Rutenbeck

When a young, irreverent priest arrives at Saint Patrick Parish in Lawrence, Mass., he discovers the unexpected — boiling ethnic tensions in a changing working-class community.

Filmed over four years,Scenes from a Parish follows the wildly diverse personal stories of Father Paul O’Brien and his unruly flock — longtime Irish-American parishioners and recent immigrants from the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Vietnam, and Cambodia — as they struggle to hold on to faith in the face of desperate circumstances.

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