Sister Ann Reynolds, S.C., who taught at St. Paul’s School, Warren St., Brooklyn, from 1958 to 1962, died.
Born in Manhattan, she entered the Sisters of Charity of New York in 1953,
professing final vows in 1961, and receiving the religious name of Sister Christopher Maria.
After 37 years in education, Sister Ann entered nursing school and began a second career as an LPN to care for the sick.
She served as a nursing assistant at St. John Riverside in Yonkers and then became a patient advocate for the Sisters at the Convent of Mary the Queen.
She is survived by her sister, Mary.
Sister Helen Marie Clancey, C.S.J., formerly Sister Maura Joseph, a member of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph and administrator of Maria Regina Residence, died June 25, in Massachusetts General Hospital in the 56th year of her religious life.
She entered the congregation from Our Lady of Angels parish, Bay Ridge.
She earned a BS degree in Education from Brentwood College; an MA in English from Manhattan College; an MA in Administration from SUNY at Plattsburgh; and an LNHA (Licensed Nursing Home Administrator) from the New York State Department of Health.
She taught at St. Matthew, Crown Heights, 1960-62; St. Benedict Joseph Labre, Richmond Hill, 1962-67; St. Athanasius, Bensonhurst, 1967-68; The Mary Louis Academy, Jamaica Estates, 1968-77; Our Lady of Perpetual Help H.S., Sunset Park, as Assistant Principal, 1977-83; Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, as Adjunct Instructor State Prison, 1983-86; Incarnation parish, accountant, 1985-90; General Councillor on C.S.J. Leadership Team, Brentwood, L.I., 1986-94; and Administrator of Maria Regina Residence, 1990-2011, while Maria Regina was recognized as one of the highest rated nursing homes for quality care in the area.
Burial was in Calvary Cemetery, Brentwood.
Lola C. Cobham, mother of Deacon Jaime Cobham of SS. Peter and Paul, Williamsburg, and St. Athanasius, Bensonhurst, died July 4.
Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated July 9 at Our Lady of Charity Church, Weeksville.
Burial was in Evergreen Cemetery, Cypress Hills.
Julia Theresa Keeney, the mother of Father Charles P. Keeney, who resides at St. Augustine’s rectory, Park Slope, died July 3 at the Jupiter Pavillion, Jupiter, Fla.
Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated July 6 at St. Christopher’s Church in Florida.
Burial was in St. Charles Cemetery, Farmingdale, L. I.
Cardinal Eugenio de Araujo Sales, the retired archbishop of Rio de Janeiro who defended the rights of the poor and attended all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council, died July 9.
Cardinal Sales, 91, had been in poor health and died of a heart attack.
Serving as archbishop of Rio de Janeiro for 30 years, the late cardinal had been outspoken against human rights violations during the decades of military rule in Brazil. After a civilian government came to power in 1984, he criticized the country’s new constitution for not doing enough for agrarian reform and for defining abortion too vaguely.
He also criticized government corruption in the 1990s, saying it was impossible to build a real nation without confidence in government leaders, and condemned the systematic murder of street children carried out by self-appointed death squads.
He supported the Vatican’s efforts to sanction Brazilian theologians and close seminaries that had strayed from Catholic principles in their focus on liberation theology.
He also lamented the tawdry and licentious nature of the city’s world-famous pre-Lenten Carnival celebrations, calling them “disgraceful exhibitionism.”
When he participated in all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council, he was a member of the commission for the lay apostolate and the mixed commission that drafted the general outline of the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, “Gaudium et Spes.”
Created cardinal by Pope Paul VI in 1969, the Brazilian prelate had been the longest-serving cardinal in the church before he died. As of early July, there were just three prelates still alive who had been created a cardinal by Pope Paul: Cardinal Paulo Evaristo Arns, 90, of Sao Paulo; U.S. Cardinal William W. Baum, 85; and Pope Benedict XVI, 85.
Cardinal Sales’ death leaves the College of Cardinals with 208 members, 121 of whom are under the age of 80 and therefore eligible to vote in a conclave.
Sister Agnes Wassmer, O.P., 85, a member of the Sisters of St. Dominic, Amityville, L.I., for 66 years, died July 10.
Born in Brooklyn on February 19, 1927, she attended St. Aloysius School, Ridgewood, and Bishop McDonnell H.S., Brooklyn. She entered the order in 1946 and took the religious name of Sister John Maureen.
She taught at St. Luke, Whitestone, 1947-49; St. Fidelis, College Point, 1949-54; Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Lindenhurst, L.I., 1954-56; St. Leonard, Bushwick, 1956-59; and St. Boniface, Elmont, 1959-67.
She then began a 27-year tenure at St. Martin, Amityville, 1967-94.
She acted as a substitute teacher, 1994-95, before retiring.
Interment was in the Sisters’ Cemetery in Amityville.
