He was an undocumented immigrant who walked along the dangerous border of Mexico for a month to enter the US. Like so many newcomers, he worked in construction. He didn’t know any English. He came to Miami and for years lived here in the margins of poverty. He became a priest. And today, Father Juan Carlos Paguaga works in a community that has raised about $18 million for a new church and academic center, at St. Agnes. Father Paguaga just celebrated 20 years as a priest, in strange times of confinement and pandemic. He recently sat with the Islander News to tell us some of his story.

 

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