Father John A. Coleman, SJ, both a noted sociologist who studied the intersection of religion and public life and policy and a parish priest, died January 17, 2025, at Sacred Heart Jesuit Center in Los Gatos, California. He was 87 years old and a Jesuit for 70 years. Fr. Coleman was born in San Francisco …
Brother Fred Mercy, SJ, passed away January 1, 2025, at Sacred Heart Jesuit Center in Los Gatos, California. Br. Mercy was born on March 17, 1935, in Seattle. He entered the Society on March 11, 1967, in Sheridan, Oregon, and professed his final vows July 31, 1985. He was 89 years old and a Jesuit …
Father Patrick J. Connolly, SJ, professor emeritus of film and television studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, died December 17, 2024, at Sacred Heart Jesuit Center in Los Gatos, California. A member of the Jesuits’ USA Midwest Province, he was 89 years old, a Jesuit for 71 years and a priest for 58 …
Father J. Daniel (Dan) Powers, SJ, last Jesuit pastor of St. Anne’s Church on the Blackfeet Reservation at Heart Butte, Montana, died December 3, 2024, at Sacred Heart Jesuit Center in Los Gatos, California. He was 88 years old and a Jesuit for 70 years. Fr. Powers was born in Pendleton, Oregon, on March 20, …
Father James Hayes Keene, SJ, former senior systems analyst at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, died on October 2, 2024, at Sacred Heart Jesuit Center in Los Gatos, California. He was 83 years old, a Jesuit for 65 years and a priest for 51 years. Fr. Keene was born in St. Louis on August …
Father E. Louis Bishop, SJ, longtime administrator and counselor at Brophy College Preparatory in Phoenix, died August 29, 2024, at Sacred Heart Jesuit Center in Los Gatos, California. He was 91 years old, a Jesuit for 73 years and a priest for 60 years. Emile Louis (Lou) Bishop was born in Seattle on July 4, …
June 30, 2023 – Father Edward F. Flaherty, SJ, died Sunday, June 25, 2023, at St. Ignatius Hall in Florissant, Missouri. He was 104 years old, a Jesuit for 63 years and a priest for 58 years. At his death, he was the oldest Jesuit in the global Society of Jesus. His Jesuit brothers will …
May 8, 2023 – Father J. Timothy Thompson, SJ, died May 7, 2023, in St. Louis. He was 84 years old, a Jesuit for 65 years and a priest for 52 years. He will be remembered at a Memorial Mass on Saturday, May 13, at 4:00 pm at St. Ignatius Hall in Florissant, Mo. The …
May 8, 2023 – Father Joseph M. Vanderholt, SJ, died May 6, 2023, in Land O’Lakes, Fla. He was 85 years old, a Jesuit for 67 years and a priest for 54 years. Remembered by his Jesuit brothers as a priest of humble demeanor and a kind and gentle confessor, he will be remembered at …
May 3, 2023 – Father James M. Short, SJ, died Saturday, April 29, 2023, in Florissant, Mo. He was 98 years old, a Jesuit for 74 years and a priest for 61 years. In a final act of generosity, Fr. Short donated his body to science. His Memorial Mass will be at St. Ignatius Hall …