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Renowned journalist Cokie Roberts, lifelong Catholic, dies at age 75
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- Sep 18, 2019
Cokie Roberts, a broadcast journalist and political commentator who spoke publicly about her Catholic faith and her admiration for the Sacred Heart sisters who taught her, died Sept. 17 due to complications from breast cancer. She was 75.
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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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Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe independence leader and ruler, dies at 95
- Catholic News Service, Church in Asia
- Sep 6, 2019
Robert Mugabe, who led Zimbabwe to independence from Britain in 1980 and then crushed his opposition during nearly four decades of rule, always liked to be seen as a devout Catholic. Mugabe, 95, died Sept. 6 in Singapore, where he has often received medical treatment in recent years.
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Cardinal Etchegaray, key papal envoy of St. John Paul II, dies at 96
- Catholic News Service, Vatican
- Sep 5, 2019
Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, a longtime Vatican official and papal envoy who was sent to some of the world’s most wounded and challenging places, died in France Sept. 4. He was 96.
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Colombian Cardinal Jose Pimiento dead at 100
- Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas
- Sep 4, 2019
Colombian Cardinal Jose de Jesus Pimiento Rodriguez, who participated in the Second Vatican Council, died at the age of 100.
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Italian Cardinal Achille Silvestrini dead at 95
- Catholic News Service, Vatican
- Aug 29, 2019
Cardinal Achille Silvestrini, former prefect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches and a longtime Vatican diplomat, died at the age of 95.
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