OAKLAND PARK, Fla. (WFOR) – A Florida priest has racked up more than $500,000 in fines for continuing to feed the homeless after the area around his church was rezoned more than a decade ago.
For 36 years, Father Bob Caudill has been feeding the homeless at All Saints Catholic Mission in Oakland Park. For the last 12 of those, he’s been locked in a standoff with the city, which alleges he’s operating a non-permitted soup kitchen.
“In 2014, they decided to rezone the Powerline area. They told me fallaciously that ‘you have to stop feeding; you’re not fitting into the new zoning,’” Caudill said…