Chris Ponnet, Catholic priest who served COVID patients and opposed the death penalty, dies
When news first trickled out that Chris Ponnet, the longtime pastor of the St. Camillus Center for Spiritual Care in Lincoln Heights, had died, images and condolences popped up online.
There was a photograph of him being arrested in 2011 at a blockade in downtown Los Angeles over the war in Afghanistan. Another image showed him at an anti-death-penalty rally holding a cross with the message “replace the death penalty” written across the center.
The condolences included one from Sacred Heart High School in Lincoln Heights, where he was praised as a “beloved presider and homilist at our masses.”
(Photo Credit: Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)