A Mass of Christian Burial for Msgr. Nicholas W. Sivillo, was celebrated Tuesday, April 14 at Our Lady of Hope Church, Middle Village, where he had been pastor from 1988 to 2009. He died on April 10 at the Bishop Mugavero Residence in Douglaston. He was 76. Born in Brooklyn, he was baptized in St. […]
Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte, who served as Cardinal-Archbishop of Montreal for 22 years, died April 8 in Montreal’s Marie-Clarac Hospital. He was 78. He was diabetic, and his health had been in decline for several months. He was moved to palliative care March 24. Cardinal Turcotte was remembered as a populist, a down-to-earth cleric with a […]
Retired Bishop William B. Friend of Shreveport, Louisiana, died April 2 at his residence in Coral Springs, surrounded by family members. He was 83. His funeral Mass was to be celebrated April 14 at the Cathedral of St. John Berchmans in Shreveport.
Maura Ann Carroll, a longtime parishioner and teacher at Mary, Queen of Heaven parish, Old Mill Basin, died April 3. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated at Mary, Queen of Heaven Church on April 8. Msgr. Jamie Gigantiello was the main celebrant. Carroll taught in Mary, Queen of Heaven School for over 30 years […]
Robert Blair Kaiser, whose award-winning coverage of the Second Vatican Council for Time magazine played a significant role in informing Americans about the council, died April 2 in hospice care in Phoenix. He was 84. His funeral Mass was to be celebrated April 10 at St. Francis Xavier Church in Phoenix.
Joseph Stile, 97, a lifelong resident of Brooklyn, who was involved in many church and community activities, died peacefully on March 28. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on April 1 at St. Thomas Aquinas Church, Flatlands. He was a Knight of the Holy Sepulchre, and a member of the Holy Name Society for […]
Sister Claire McRudin, S.C., a Sister of Charity, Halifax, for 64 years, died at Mount St. Vincent, Wellsley Hills, Mass., March 31. She was 84. Formerly known as Sister John Kevin, she taught first and second grades at Our Lady of Angels School, Bay Ridge, 1951-63, and first grade at Resurrection-Ascension School, Rego Park, 1963-66. From […]
Sister Kathleen Hanrahan, S.C., 94, who entered the Sisters of Charity of New York in 1938, died March 22 at St. Patrick’s Home, the Bronx. Her only assignment in the Brooklyn Diocese was as a seventh- and eighth-grade teacher at St. Peter’s School in Cobble Hill, from 1948 to 1953. Burial was in St. Joseph’s […]
Sister Bernard Loretto Carr, C.S.J., a Sister of St. Joseph, Brentwood, L.I., for 78 years, died in Maria Regina Residence in Brentwood. She entered the congregation in 1937 from Holy Cross, Flatbush. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Spanish from St. John’s University, Jamaica, 1956, and certification in Spanish from Brentwood College. She taught at […]
A Mass of Christian Burial for Father Dennis Farrell, 71, former pastor of Resurrection parish, Gerritsen Beach, was celebrated at the church on Saturday, March 28. He died March 25 at the age of 71. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Visitation B.V.M. parish, Red Hook, he attended the parish school, Alexander Hamilton H.S., Brooklyn […]
