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 […]
James Francis O’Donnell, 85, of Flushing, writer, politician, and financial consultant, died Feb. 3 at Greenwich Hospital, Greenwich, Conn., surrounded by family and friends. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated Feb. 9 at Mary’s Nativity Church, Flushing. Born at St. Mary’s Hospital, Brooklyn, he attended All Hallows H.S., the Bronx, and Fordham University, where […]
Italian Cardinal Giovanni Cheli, a longtime Vatican diplomat and retired head of the Pontifical Council for Migrants and Travelers, died in Rome Feb. 8 at the age of 94. He had celebrated the 70th anniversary of his priestly ordination in July, presiding over a Mass in Asti, the northern Italian diocese for which he was […]
Sister Mary Joseph Lorigan, R.S.M., a member of the Sisters of Mercy, for 73 years, died Jan. 20 at Maria Regina Residence in Brentwood, L.I. She was 92. She entered the Sisters of Mercy from Our Lady of Perpetual Help parish, South Ozone Park, in 1940, after having graduated from P.S. 159 and Bayside H.S. […]
Sister Mary Joselia Colbert, S.S.N.D., died Jan. 28 at Lourdes Health Care Center in Wilton, Conn. She was 88 and had been a professed member of the School Sisters of Notre Dame for 68 years. Born in Boston, Mass., she attended Our Lady of Perpetual Help grammar and high schools in Roxbury, Mass., both staffed […]
Joseph Truong, the brother of Father Joseph Tan Pham, parochial vicar at Our Lady of Mount Carmel-St. Margaret Mary, Astoria, died Jan. 29 in San Jose, Calif. The funeral took place in California.
