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Obituaries, Week of Nov. 13, 2021
Sister Antoinette Marie Keyes, CSJ, entered into Eternal Life on Oct. 24, 2021. A Sister for 71 years, she grew up in Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish in Queens with her Irish-born parents and her...
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Trappist Monk, Last Survivor of Algerian Monastery Attack, Dead at 97
By Junno Arocho Esteves VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Trappist Father Jean-Pierre Schumacher, the last survivor of the 1996 attack on the Tibhirine monastery in Algeria, died at the age of 97. In a message...
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Obituaries, Week of Nov. 27, 2021
Sister Virginia Mary Crowley, CSJ, (Sister Emiliana), a Sister of St. Joseph in her 76th year of religious life, entered eternal rest on Oct. 28, at the age of 95. Sister Virginia Mary Crowley, CSJ She...
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Obituaries, Week of Dec. 4, 2021
Sister Anne Lorraine Hanna, CSJ, a Sister of St. Joseph for 66 years, died on Nov. 1. Born Joan Lorraine to James and Florence Hanna, Sister Anne grew up in Queens, where she attended St. Joan of Arc...
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Obituaries, Week of Dec. 11, 2021
Sister Kathleen Theresa Sullivan, CSJ, died Nov. 11, at age 96. She lived the life of a Sister of Saint Joseph of Brentwood for almost 80 years. Sister Kathleen was born in Brooklyn and grew up in...
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Obituaries, Week of Dec. 18, 2021
Sister Muriel Theresa Long, S.C., formerly Sister Maria Daniel, died Dec. 2, 2021 at age 92, at St. John Riverside Hospital, Yonkers. Born in Manhattan, one of four children of James and Catherine...
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Obituaries, Week of Dec. 25, 2021
Sister Juliette Marie Houser, a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph for 64 years, died on Nov. 4, 2021. She was 83. She was the daughter of Edward and Dorothy Houser and was nurtured by her family and...
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Atonement Father Carter Dies at 91; Was Longtime Leader in Brooklyn
Father Martin Carter led Our Lady of Victory Parish for 13 years. (Photo: Franciscan Friars of the Atonement) By Catholic News Service BROOKLYN, N.Y. (CNS) — Father Martin Carter, a Franciscan Friar of...
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A Look at the Life of Oscar Winner Sidney Poitier
The son of a Bahamian tomato farmer, Poitier was raised Catholic, but ultimately became Agnostic. (Photo: CNN) Tablet Staff Sidney Poitier, Hollywood’s first Black movie star and the first Black man to...
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Obituaries, Week of Jan. 15, 2022
Sister Mary Margaret Daly, CSJ, (Sister Helen Marie) entered into eternal life on December 17, at age 97, while residing at Maria Regina Residence in Brentwood. She was a sister of Saint Joseph for...
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Obituaries, Week of Jan. 22, 2022
Msgr. Edward J. Bottino, longtime pastor of Mary’s Nativity-St. Ann Parish in Flushing, died Jan. 13 at age 93. Msgr. Bottino attended Iona College in New Rochelle, where he received a Bachelor of Arts...
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Obituaries, Week of Jan. 29, 2022
Sister M. Celeste Parry, IHM, of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, died Monday, Jan. 17, 2022, at Regional Hospital in Scranton, Pa. She was 94. She was born on November 12, 1927,...
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Obituaries, Week of Feb. 5, 2022
Msgr. Bednartz ‘Loved People of God’ Msgr. August C. Bednartz, a retired priest of the Diocese of Brooklyn, died Jan. 23. He was born on Sept. 27, 1926, in New York and was ordained to the priesthood...
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Obituaries, Week of Feb. 12, 2022
Priest ‘Exuded a Certain Simple Holiness’ Msgr. Lawrence E. Hinch, a retired priest of the Diocese of Brooklyn, died Thursday, Jan. 27, at age 88. Msgr. Lawrence E. Hinch Born on Sept. 11, 1933 in...
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Obituaries, Week of Feb. 19, 2022
Priest ‘Endured Pain, Suffering for His Faith’ Father Dehua (Edward) Zhang, C.S.J.B., a retired religious priest of the Roman Catholic Congregation of Saint John the Baptist who ministered in the...
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Obituaries, Week of Feb. 26, 2022
Sister Catherine Marie Walsh, S.C., died Feb. 4, at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx at age 84, in the 67th year of her commitment as a Sister of Charity. Sister Catherine Marie Walsh, S.C. Sister...
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Obituaries, Week of March 5, 2022
Sister Catherine Benedict Hagens, O.P., who served for more than 70 years as a Sister of St. Dominic, died Feb. 15, after a six-month illness. She was 89. Sister Catherine Benedict Hagens, O.P., Born...
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Cardinal Cacciavillan, Former Nuncio to U.S., Dies at 95
By Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Italian Cardinal Agostino Cacciavillan, a former nuncio to the United States and the retired head of the Vatican investment office, died March 5 at the age...
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Obituaries, Week of March 12, 2022
Sister Maureen Gregory, RSM, formerly Sr. Mary Pia, a member of the Sisters of Mercy, Mid-Atlantic Community for 71 years, died on Tuesday, Jan. 18, at Maria Regina Residence in Brentwood, New York, at...
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Cardinal Dolan’s Mother Dies at 93; He Thanks God ‘For the Gift she Was’
Pope Benedict XVI greets U.S. Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York and the cardinal’s mother, Shirley Dolan, at the end of a special audience for 22 new cardinals and their families in Paul VI hall at...
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