Two Catholic Church leaders have been running a soup kitchen in Detroit’s oldest neighborhood for decades, and they have decided it’s time to retire.
The kitchen, known as Manna Meal, is located in the lower level of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Detroit’s Corktown neighborhood. It’s been operating since 1976.
“There had been none for some years, 10, 12, but there was that motive to have a second Catholic Worker house, soup kitchen, shelter in this area, because there had been one previously,” Father Tom Lumpkin said…