Father Anthony V. Brennan, M.M., a native of Brooklyn, died in Vancouver, British Columbia, on May 19. He was 80 years old and a Maryknoll priest for 53 years. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he was raised in Manhattan. After ordination on June 10, 1961, he was assigned to Hong Kong to study Cantonese. In […]
In the 1960s, Kennedy was commissioned by the U.S. bishops to provide the psychological component of a study on the nation’s priests. In 1969, he was the first commencement speaker on the Douglaston campus of Cathedral College.
Someday, the late Bishop Francis X. Ford will be declared a saint, but no one thinks it will happen soon. “It’s a moving, alive process,” says Father Raymond Finch, M.M., the Brooklyn-born Superior General of Maryknoll. “Now, can I tell you exactly where and how long it’s gonna be? Can’t. Different things happen at different moments, some steps are taken and some steps take a little longer.”
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 […]
Father James M. Gilligan, a native of Brooklyn, will celebrate his 60th anniversary of ordination, and Father Donald P. McQuade, a native of Astoria, will celebrate his 50th anniversary.
Sister Doretta Leonard, M.M., is a religious educator and pastoral worker who worked in China for 56 years, including a brief period spent under house arrest when the Communists gained power.
Sister Louise Bullis, a Brooklyn-born Maryknoll nun, worked for years in Hawaii and returned in 2007 to the Maryknoll Sisters Center, where she continues to reside.
