Sister Helen Selaris, C.S.J., a member of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph, Brentwood, L.I., for 67 years, died on March 3. She entered the congregation in 1942 from St. Rose of Lima parish, Parkville. She earned a bachelor’s degree in French from St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights, and certification in kindergarten education […]
Father Walter O’Brien, O.F.M. Cap., died in Yonkers, N.Y., on Sunday, March 3, at the age of 100. For over 82 years, he served as a Capuchin friar and at the time of his death was the oldest living member of the order in the U.S. Born in Manhattan, he entered the Capuchins in 1930 […]
Sister Irene Poirier, S.C., a Sister of Charity, Halifax, for 66 years died on March 4 at Mount St. Vincent, Wellesley Hills, Mass. She was 88. Formerly known as Sister Anne Regina, she taught fifth grade and was responsible for school accounts at Resurrection-Ascension School, Rego Park, 1955-63. She spent the rest of her years […]
Sister Ann E. Fitzpatrick, C.S.J., a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph, Brentwood, L.I., for 70 years, died Feb. 10 in Maria Regina Residence, Brentwood. She entered the congregation from Holy Family parish, Park Slope, in 1943. She attended St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights, and earned her master’s degree and doctorate in education administration […]
Sister Margaret (Maggie) Gay, O.S.U., died Feb. 1, at Brookhaven Hospital. She was 80. Born in Hartford, Conn., she entered the congregation of the Ursuline Sisters of Tildonk in 1952 and professed her final vows six years later. She taught at Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ozone Park, from 1966 to 1969, and at […]
Sister Catherine Peter Gallagher M.S.B.T., a member of the Missionary Servants of the Most Blessed Trinity (Trinitarian Sisters), for 62 years, died on Jan. 28. Baptized as Eileen, she entered the Trinitarian Sisters from Immaculate Conception Church, Astoria, in 1950, after having graduated from Immaculate Conception Elementary School and St. Jean Baptiste H.S., Manhattan. She […]
Sister Mary Berard D’Amato, O.S.F., 89, died in Assisi House, Aston, Pa., on Feb. 23. She had been a religious sister for 73 years. Born as Mary D’Amato, she grew up in Jersey City, N.J. She entered the Franciscan Sisters of Ringwood (a congregation that later merged with the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia) […]
MELBOURNE, Australia (CNS) – Dr. Evelyn Billings, who with her husband, John, pioneered research that led them to develop a form of natural family planning supported by the Catholic Church, died Feb. 16 after a short illness. She was 95. The Australian pediatrician joined her physician-husband’s team in 1965 as he was researching a more […]
Longtime Catholic school educator Anne J. Pitaro, 85, of Greenwich, Conn., died Feb. 8 from complications of lymphoma. She worked in the Catholic schools of the Diocese of Brooklyn for 29 years as both teacher and principal at the former St. Elizabeth School in Ozone Park. Born in Ozone Park, she graduated from Nativity B.V.M. […]
Sister Julie Marie Romaine, C.S.J., a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph, Brentwood, L.I., for 65 years, died Jan. 29. She entered the congregation in 1948 from St. Lawrence parish, Sayville, L.I., and earned a bachelor of business administration degree from the St. John’s University School of Commerce. She served in St. Francis of […]
