A funeral Mass will be celebrated Nov. 3 at St. Joseph’s Abbey in Spencer for Trappist Father Thomas Keating, a leading figure in the centering prayer movement that got its start in the 1970s. He died Oct. 25 at the abbey.
Obituary
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A.W. Richard Sipe, researcher, expert on clergy sex abuse, dies at 85
Sipe’s research into celibacy and priestly sexual behavior helped guide the work of church leaders and others responding to the clergy sexual abuse crisis.
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Paying our respects to Brian Doyle
Brian Doyle’s essays were filled with grace and unconcerned with grammar.
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Remembering Robert N. Bellah
John A. Coleman, S.J., pays tribute to his teacher, mentor and friend, who died one year ago on the Feast of St. Ignatius.
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Fay Vincent on George Hunt
Thanks to former Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent for sending this remembrance of George W. Hunt, S.J.
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R.I.P.: George W. Hunt, S.J., Editor of America (1984-1998)
The Rev George W Hunt, S.J., editor in chief of America magazine from 1984-1998, died this morning at the Fordham University Jesuit community in New York.
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‘Splendidly himself’: The funeral homily for Robert F. Drinan
John Langan, S.J., preached the homily at the funeral of Robert Drinan, S.J., on Feb. 1, 2007. The full text of his homily is below.
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Between the Notes
At his 80th birthday party last year, celebrated with dozens of friends in the garden of his home in northwestern Connecticut, Isaac Stern asked me to sit next to him at dinner. Rarely have I felt so honored. His luminous personality represented to me the perfect combination of a monumentally succes
