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Salvatore Sapienza was born and raised in

Howard Beach, an

Italian-American neighborhood in Queens, New York.  He lived just a few blocks away from John Gotti and family.

Sapienza attended Archbishop Molloy,

an all-boys Catholic high school run by the Marist Brothers.  Among his classmates were future “Survivor” winner, Tom Westman (right) and Jeffrey McGowan, author of

Major Conflict, which details his life as a gay man in the U.S. military.

Westman (far left) and Sapienza (far right)

Sapienza then attended

New York University. 

Among the students on campus were Bridget Fonda and Debra Messing. 

An NYU Scholar, Sapienza was

featured in “Who’s Who Among

American College Students.”  

Upon graduation from NYU,

Sapienza entered

religious life as a

Marist Brother,

taking the vows of

poverty, chastity, and obedience.

 

 

During his time in religious life, Sapienza helped in the formation of St. Francis AIDS Ministry under the guidance of Father Mychal Judge, the gay NYC fire chaplain who died on 9/11 and is the subject of the documentary Saint of 9/11. The ministry was one of the first Catholic AIDS organizations in the country.  Sapienza’s remembrances of Father Judge will be included in the book “ Queer & Catholic” to be published by Haworth Press in 2008.

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