March 3, 2023 – Br. Edward L. Niziolek, SJ, was born in Ware, Mass., on October 1, 1938. The only child of Edward and Claire (Dubois) Niziolek. He graduated from Cranwell Prep, Lenox, Mass., in 1957. On July 31 of that same year, he entered the Jesuit novitiate in Plattsburgh, N.Y. In 1958, he moved …
Feb. 21, 2023 – Fr. James Aloysius Gillon, SJ, was born in Holyoke, Mass., on Oct. 17, 1942, the second of three children of Vincent P. and Edna Marie (Lafond) Gillon. Upon graduating from Sacred Heart High School in Holyoke, Fr. Gillon entered the College of the Holy Cross in 1960 where he studied for …
Jan. 20, 2023- Fr. Vincent McDonough, SJ, was born in New York City, the son of Vincent and Rita (Kuhn) McDonough, on September 18, 1929. The Roaring Twenties were coming to an end, it was approximately six weeks before the stock market crash which precipitated the Great Depression. Growing up in hard times did not …
Rev. Joseph J. Feeney, SJ, was born on October 8, 1934, in Philadelphia, PA. He attended St. Joseph’s Prep and entered the Novitiate of St. Isaac Jogues in Wernersville, PA, on August 14, 1952. He received his bachelor’s degree and Masters in English, as well as his Licentiate in Philosophy from Loyola Seminary in Shrub …
Jan. 4, 2023 – Fr. John James Halligan, SJ, was born on Sept. 23, 1930, in the Bronx, N.Y., to Joseph Halligan, a police lieutenant, and Mary Rose Torpy Halligan, a homemaker. Fr. Halligan had eight siblings: Mary Rose, Kathleen, Margaret Mary, Joseph, Jr., Peter, Theresa, Patricia and John. In 1943, Fr. Halligan entered Fordham …
Oct. 27, 2022 – Fr. John Allan Loftus, SJ, passed away peacefully at Campion Health Care Center in Weston, Mass., on Mon., Oct. 24, 2022, following a period of declining health. He was 75. Fr. Loftus, was born in Pittston, Pa., the son of William and Clare (Allan) Loftus. Following graduation from Scranton Preparatory School …
Oct. 13, 2022 – Fr. William P. Walsh, SJ, died on Oct. 7, 2022, the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, at Murray-Weigel Hall adjacent to the Fordham University campus where he had been a young college student in the early 50’s. Fr. Walsh was born in Corona, N.Y., on Nov. 13, 1932. His …
Rev. John W. O’Malley, SJ, was the only child of Charles and Elizabeth Gallagher O’Malley. He was born on June 11, 1927, and grew up in the small town of Tiltonsville, Ohio. He attended the public high school and graduated in 1945. He felt a call to the priesthood but not as a parish priest. …
Sept. 10, 2022 – Fr. Ronald J. Amiot, SJ, was born on June 14, 1949, in Bridgeport, Conn., to Josephine (née Di Camillo) and Robert John Amiot. He had a brother, Thomas Anthony and a sister, Janet Gwen. Fr. Amiot entered the Jesuit novitiate at Shadowbrook in Lenox, Mass., on Aug. 14, 1967. In 1969, …
Sept. 7. 2022 – Fr. Robert V. Paskey, SJ, died peacefully at Murray-Weigel Hall in the Bronx, N.Y., in the early morning hours of Sept. 5, 2022; it was Labor Day. Fr. Paskey labored in priestly ministry all over the world, from Alaska to Madrid in Spain, to Nairobi in East Africa, from St. Ann’s …