Feb. 24, 2020 – Fr. Richard J. Regan, SJ was born on October 26, 1930, in Morristown, N.J. His parents were Joseph and Mary (Cella) Regan. Fr. Regan attended both St. Peter’s Prep (1944-1948) and St. Peter’s College (1948-1952) in Jersey City, and upon graduation he studied for a year at Harvard University Law School. …
Feb. 14, 2020 – Fr. Thomas L. Sheridan, SJ, was born in Manhattan on Dec. 17, 1926. His parents were Thomas L. Sheridan, from Jersey City, and Angela Cecelia Sheridan, from Ballyjamesduff, County Cavan, Ireland. After attending Regis High School (1940-44) Fr. Sheridan entered the Jesuits on July 30, 1944, at St. Andrew-on -Hudson. His …
Feb. 11, 2020 – Rev. George V. Coyne, SJ, was born on January 19, 1933, in Baltimore, Maryland, and completed his bachelor’s degree in mathematics and his licentiate in philosophy at Fordham University in 1958. He carried out a spectrophotometric study of the lunar surface for the completion of his doctorate in astronomy at Georgetown …
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Jan. 8, 2020 – Fr. Jeffrey P. Baerwald, SJ (UNE) died Friday, January 3, 2020 at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, California. He was born on May 7, 1957 in St. Paul, Minnesota, entered the Society of Jesus on August 20, 1983 in Syracuse, New York, and was ordained June 10, 1989 …
Dec. 26, 2019 – Fr. Thomas V. O’Connor, SJ, was called to eternal life on December 23, 2019. Fr. O’Connor died at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, N.Y. He was born on May 6, 1932 in Brooklyn, N.Y., entered the Society of Jesus at St. Andrew-on-Hudson, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., on September 7, 1950, and was ordained …
Dec. 26, 2019 – Fr. Daniel J. Lusch, SJ, died peacefully on December 20, 2019, around 6:40 PM at Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, in Burlington, Mass. He was 86 years old. May he now be welcomed into eternal life. Fr. Dan Lusch, SJ, was born on Dec. 16, 1933, in Stamford, Conn. He and …
Dec. 5, 2019 – Rev. John C. Haughey, SJ, was born in White Plains, NY, on September 27, 1930. He soon moved to Philadelphia and attended St. Thomas More High School, entering the Novitiate of St. Isaac Jogues in Wernersville, Pa. in 1948. He received a Licentiate in Philosophy from Bellarmine College, a Licentiate in …
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Nov. 25, 2019 – Fr. Daniel J. Sullivan, SJ, was called to eternal life on November 22, 2019. Fr. Sullivan died at Montefiore Hospital, Bronx, N.Y. He was born on April 22, 1928, in Queens, N.Y., entered the Society of Jesus at St. Andrew-on-Hudson, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., on August 14, 1950, and was ordained on July …
Nov. 4, 2019 – Fr. Gabriel Simon Harak, SJ, was born on April 15th, 1948, in Derby, Conn., a small city west of New Haven, where the Naugatuck River flows into the Housatonic. He liked to quote lines of verse about his birthplace (which had an iron foundry and metal industries): Derby, thou whose brazen …
Oct. 31, 2019 – Francis Alfred Sullivan was born in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston on May 21st, 1922, the second of four sons of George and Bessie (Peterson) Sullivan. The family moved to Dorchester and then to West Roxbury, where Fr. Sullivan grew up. He attended local public schools—though, as he said, most …