Obituaries, Week of Dec. 26, 2020
Sister Lucy Mary Blyskal, C.S.J. Sister Lucy Mary Blyskal, C.S.J., a Sister of St. Joseph for 61 years, died on June 23. She entered the congregation in 1959 from Our Lady of Perpetual Help parish,...
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Beloved ‘Priest Through and Through’ – Father Sil, Dies at Age 60 Father Silvaster Sarihaddula Father Silvaster Sarihaddula, who served at St. Matthias, Ridgewood, and Our Lady of Sorrows, Corona, and...
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Priest of ‘Many Talents,’ Who Loved to Travel and Meeting People, Dies at 76 Father Agnelo Casimiro Pinto, S.M.W. Father Agnelo Casimiro Pinto, S.M.W., a priest of the Archdiocese of St. Boniface in...
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Father Kevin J. O’Reilly, S.T.D. Community Mourns Young, ‘Witty and Brilliant Teacher Of Church Doctrine’ Father Kevin J. O’Reilly, S.T.D., Academic Dean and Professor of Dogmatic Theology at St....
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Sister Marnette Bamberger, O.P., a member of the Sisters of St. Dominic of Amityville for 73 years, died on Jan. 2. She was 91. Sister Marnette Bamberger, O.P. Sister Marnette was born on Sept. 20,...
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Sister M. Alexius Fitzgerald, I.H.M., a member for 73 years of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, died on Feb. 3 at Our Lady of Peace Residence in Scranton. She was 94. Sister M....
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Beloved Father, Will Be Missed For His Sense of Humor, Kindness, Warm Smile Father Paul Palmiotto, a retired priest of the Diocese of Brooklyn, died on Feb. 15. He was 68. Father Paul Palmiotto Born on...
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Sister Theresa Fitzgerald, IHM, (formerly known as Sister Mary Lena) a member of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary for 67 years, died on Feb. 8, at Our Lady of Peace Residence in...
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Pakistani Deacon Will Be Remembered As a ‘Loving, Humble, God-Fearing’ Man Deacon Anwar Iqbal, a permanent deacon of the Diocese of Brooklyn who served at the Parish of Immaculate Heart of Mary died on...
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Maryknoll Sister, Writer, Activist, Who Served in Africa for Over 50 Years Sister Janice McLaughlin, MM, a Maryknoll Sister who ministered in southern Africa for nearly 40 years and later became...
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Sister Jeanne Francis Budd, OP, a Dominican Sister of Amityville for 68 years, died on March 16. She was 88. Sister Jeanne Francis Budd, OP She was born (as Dolores June) in Astoria, Queens, on Sept....
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Brooklyn Native and ‘Awesome Salesian’ Fr. John Francis Grinsell, SDB, assistant pastor of St. John Bosco Parish and director of mission for the Don Bosco Community Center in Port Chester, N.Y, died on...
View ArticleSwiss-Born Father Hans Küng, Theologian, Dies at 93
Swiss-born Father Hans Küng, a prominent and sometimes controversial theologian who taught in Germany, died April 6, 2021, at age 93. Father K¸ng is pictured in a 2015 photo. (Photo: CNS/Harald Oppitz,...
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Retired Vincentian Pastor, Former Parochial Vicar for St. Stanislaus Kostka Father Stanislaw Staniszewski, C.M., a retired Vincentian Pastor, died on Mar. 27 while in Florida’s vacation residence. He...
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Sister Cecelia Dignan, CSJ, formerly known as Sister Thomas Caritas, a member of the Congregation of St. Joseph for 65 years, died on March 21. She entered the congregation from her home parish of...
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Sister Patricia Ann Kenney, CSJ, formerly known as Sister Mary Patrick, a member of the Congregation of St. Joseph for 64 years, died on Apr. 6. Sister Patricia Ann Kenney, CSJ Born in Callicoon, New...
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Sister Joan Ann Dolan, CSJ, formerly known as Sister Joan Gabriel, a Sister of St. Joseph for 71 years, died on April 13. She entered the congregation from her home parish of St. Anthony, Greenpoint....
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Sister Regina Rosaire Smith, OP, formerly known as Katherine Smith, died May 3, at age 92, in the 71st year of her religious life. She entered the congregation from Sacred Heart parish in East...
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Sister M. St. Mel Wright, IHM, formerly known as Barbara Catherine Wright, of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, died May 20, at age 92, at Our Lady of Peace Residence in Scranton,...
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Sister Ida Iris Negron, OP, a member of the Sisters of St. Dominic Province in Puerto Rico, died on the feast of Pentecost. She was 85 years old and dedicated 68 years as a Sister of St. Dominic. She...
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