Former U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy, Smith’s nephew, confirmed her death. She died Wednesday at her home in Manhattan, her daughter Kym told The New York Times.
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Dolphins coach Don Shula remembered as unassuming, daily Massgoing man
A tweet from the Dolphins May 4 said Shula “passed away peacefully at his home.” No cause of death was given.
Posted inArts & Culture, Music
R.I.P. John Prine, oracle of the broken and the beautiful
John Prine, who died on Tuesday, April 7, was one of country-folk music’s greatest lyricists.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Beyond ‘The Exorcist,’ Max von Sydow embodied the complexities of faith
Brooding, interior and utterly focused, Mr. von Sydow is a stirring presence on screen, with a weathered face apt to illustrate inner spiritual turmoil.
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Father John Langan, writer, speaker on just-war tradition, dies at 79
Father Langan’s research and writing widely explored the just-war theory and its application to questions surrounding issues such as nuclear armaments, terrorism, the U.S.-led war in Iraq, and the Syrian civil war.
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Remembering the revolutionary priest and poet, Ernesto Cardenal
Thomas Merton wrote an introduction to a lyrical book of reflections by Cardenal, Vida en Amor: “In a time of conflict, anxiety, war, cruelty, and confusion, the reader may be surprised that this book is a hymn in praise of love, telling us that ‘all things love one another.’”
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Father Ernesto Cardenal, poet and revolutionary, dies in Nicaragua
Father Ernesto Cardenal, the Nicaraguan poet and revolutionary whose political work earned him a public admonishment from St. John Paul II, died March 1 in the Nicaraguan capital of Managua. He was 95.
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Finding God in cosmological things: Remembering George Coyne, S.J.
I could list all his scientific work, his writings on faith and science, his honors and degrees. But none of those are George.
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Father George V. Coyne, S.J., once director of the Vatican Observatory, dies at 87
Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, the Vatican Observatory’s current director, recalled the first words from Father Coyne when he joined the observatory staff in 1993: “Do good science.”
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Mary Higgins Clark formed enduring bond with worldwide readership
Msgr. Frank Del Prete, pastor of St. Gabriel the Archangel Parish in Saddle River, New Jersey, remembers Higgins Clark not only as a talented writer but also as a lively, committed parishioner.