Schlitt had no regrets. He’s always gone his own way. “Everyone matters,” he says, “It’s all about building community.”
In September 1970, when Springfield, Missouri, had its own Woodstock-style music festival, Father Harry Schlitt gave the prayer at the two-day event. The festival drew criticism, and so did Schlitt for his role in it. A local Baptist association even issued a formal condemnation.
To boot, Schlitt just published his second memoir, I’ll Never Know: The Rock & Roll Priest Looks at 80, a candid, humor-filled and moving look back on the last few years.
Even though he rubs shoulders with well-known people like Alioto and counts U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi among his parishioners, Schlitt is equally comfortable with the man on the street. A while back he befriended Robert, a gambler and sometime drug dealer as they both headed for an Oakland A’s game. Schlitt helped Robert financially, and when Robert needed to get out of town pronto, saw him off at the airport.
From there, he went to work in radio and TV in Chicago, Las Vegas and San Francisco; on the Armed Forces Radio and Television network; and for the ABC radio network, a career during which he interviewed popular musicians like James Brown, Peggy Lee, The Temptations and San Francisco hometown favorite Journey. He could have been a media star if he hadn’t chosen a collar, but in choosing faith over fame he has stayed true to God, himself and his community, whoever may be in it.
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