Retired Bishop Snyder, best known as 'a people's bishop,' dies at age 93
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- Oct 6, 2019
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Retired Bishop Snyder, best known as ‘a people’s bishop,’ dies at age 93
- Catholic News Service, Obituary
- Oct 6, 2019
Retired Bishop John J. Snyder, who led the Diocese of St. Augustine for more than 20 years, died Sept. 27, on the feast of St. Vincent de Paul. He was 93.
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Sister Carol Hoverman dies; was first woman editor of Witness in Dubuque
- Catholic News Service, Obituary
- Oct 5, 2019
Sister Carol Hoverman, a Sister of St. Francis, who was at the forefront of Catholic communications for over three decades, died Oct. 3. She was 80 and had been in religious life for 63 years.
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Father Thomas Stransky had key role in ecumenical, interreligious work
- Catholic News Service, Obituary
- Sep 8, 2019
Paulist Father Thomas Stransky, credited internationally as a pioneer in the Catholic Church’s ecumenical and interfaith relations stemming from the Second Vatican Council, died Sept. 3 on his 89th birthday.
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Mercy sister who was national advocate for affordable housing dies at 78
- Catholic News Service, Obituary
- Aug 4, 2019
Mercy Sister Lillian Murphy, a former CEO of Mercy Housing Inc., and a national advocate for affordable housing, died at age 78 July 25 in San Francisco.
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Late bioethicist Daniel Callahan ‘never ceased questioning,’ says Jesuit
- Catholic News Service, Obituary
- Jul 27, 2019
In an appreciation of the late pioneering bioethicist Daniel Callahan, Jesuit Father Drew Christiansen described him as “an independent scholar working at the frontier where ethics meets medicine, law and religion.”
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Spanish Cardinal Estepa, who helped edit catechism, dies at 93
- Catholic News Service, Obituary
- Jul 22, 2019
Spanish Cardinal Jose Estepa Llaurens, a former military bishop of Spain, died July 21 in Madrid. He was 93.
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