Federico Loos Is a Priest for Mexican Gangbangers
VICE Mexico
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December 5, 2014
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Father Federico Loos is a North American priest who moved to Mexico in 1977 to help gangbangers exchange their Glocks for God. VICE Mexico headed over to Huixquilucan, Mexico, to meet the man known as the "Priest of Gangs" - though Father Loos says he's more accurately the gangs' great-grandfather.

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