A Mass of Christian Burial for Deacon Ramon Genaro Diaz, 74, was celebrated on Saturday, May 23, at the Immaculate Conception Monastery Church, Jamaica Estates, where he had served since his ordination in 2002. He died at his home on Wednesday, May 20. Father Thomas Pettei, Episcopal Vicar of Queens, was the celebrant of the […]
Sister St. Timothy Connolly, C.S.J. a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph, Brentwood, L.I., for 72 years, died May 1, in Brentwood. She entered the congregation in 1943 from O.L. Mercy, Forest Hills. She attended Manhattan College, and the Catholic University of Puerto Rico. She taught at O.L. Perpetual Help, Sunset Park, 1945-48; Mary’s […]
Elena J. Papa, 93, a longtime parishioner and teacher in St. Mary Mother of Jesus parish, Bensonhurst, died May 1. She taught fourth and fifth grades in St. Mary Mother of Jesus School for 25 years until she retired in 1982. A funeral Mass was concelebrated by Msgr. Andrew J. Vaccari, St. Mary Mother of […]
ST. MEINRAD, Ind. (CNS) – A funeral Mass was celebrated May 21 at St. Meinrad Archabbey in St. Meinrad for Benedictine Father Cyprian Davis, who died May 18 at Memorial Hospital in Jasper. He was 84. Father Davis wrote six books, including “The History of Black Catholics in the United States,” published in 1990. He […]
Father James M. Gilligan, M.M., 87, a Maryknoll priest who only this month marked his 60th anniversary of ordination, died May 17. Born in Brooklyn, he attended P.S. 193, and graduated from St. John’s Prep, Bedford-Stuyvesant. He attended Maryknoll School of Theology, Ossining, N.Y., and he earned a degree in canon law from St. Thomas […]
Robert M. Muccigrosso, 73, longtime Catholic educator and Bay Ridge resident, died May 13 following bypass surgery. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated at St. Anselm Church, Bay Ridge, May 16. A graduate of Fordham University, New York University and Hofstra University, his professional career includes a total of 17 years as the principal […]
Father Philip J. Fabiano, O.F.M. Cap., a member of the Capuchin Franciscan Friars of the Province of St. Mary, died on May 4, at the Leo House, Manhattan. He was 78. Born in Manhattan as Frederick J. Fabiano, he was baptized at the Capuchin Church of Our Lady Queen of Angels, East Harlem. He entered […]
Sister Mary Ann Walsh, R.S.M., who went from hometown schoolteacher to Vatican correspondent, died April 28 in her hometown of Albany, after a battle with cancer. Sister Mary Ann, 68, had stepped down last summer from her role of 21 years in media relations for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the last six years […]
Sister Patrick Regina Sullivan, S.C., 90, a native of Manhattan, died April 24 at St. Barnabas Hospital, Bronx. Born as Catherine, she attended Sacred Heart School in the Bronx and Cathedral H.S., Manhattan, before entering the Sisters of Charity of New York in 1942. She received a bachelor’s degree in history from the College of […]
Cardinal Francis E. George, the retired archbishop of Chicago and first native Chicagoan to head the archdiocese, had battled cancer for nearly 10 years.
