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For thousands of runaway teenagers in New York City and other urban areas, Covenant House is the home that compassion built. Now the man who founded the nation's most successful program for runaways is himself in need of compassion. Father Bruce Ritter, 61, the energetic Franciscan who built Covenant...
Last week Ritter was forced to step down as president of Covenant House while the allegations are investigated by state and local prosecutors and his religious order. Whether or not the probes result in formal charges, says an observer close to the church, "the chances of Father Ritter returning to...
Fortunately, the organization that Ritter created seems strong enough to survive his departure. One of the last remaining bulwarks against the New York City notion that nothing need be done because nothing can be done, Ritter personifies Covenant House in the minds of the 800,000 donors on his mailing...
But six months later, Ritter was making headlines in the New York Post. The newspaper reported that the district attorney's office was investigating allegations by Kevin Kite, a 26-year-old former prostitute and drug runner with a history of lying. Kite claimed that he had an eight-month...
It happened at the Covenant Birthing Center in Anaheim, Calif., where obstetrician Charles Wesley Turner Jr. used forceps to hasten Myra's debut. Moments after her birth at 15 seconds past midnight on Jan. 1, Turner hustled the 6-lb. 12-oz. baby to the Melodyland Christian Center 150 ft...