Fr. Robert J. Shinney, SJ, former chaplain and counselor at Bellarmine College Preparatory, San Jose, California, died December 16, 2025, at Sacred Heart Jesuit Center in Los Gatos, California. He was 92 years of age and was a Jesuit for 71 years. Robert James Shinney and his twin sister, Roberta, were born September 23, 1933, …
Fr. Gregory M. Goethals, SJ, recently retired president of Loyola High School of Los Angeles, died in New York City on November 24, 2025. While on sabbatical, on November 8 he suffered a major heart attack and remained hospitalized until his death. He was 70 years of age and had been a member of the …
Fr. Gerald H. Robinson, SJ, died November 13, 2025, in San Jose, California, at the age of 78. He was a Jesuit for 60 years and had been engaged in counseling, retreat, and pastoral ministry and administration for 46 years. Most recently he was the director of campus ministry at California Polytechnic State University in …
Fr. Joseph T. Angilella, SJ, former academic vice president and professor of sociology at the University of San Francisco (USF), died October 26, 2025, at Sacred Heart Jesuit Center in Los Gatos, California. He was 90 years old and a member of the Jesuits for 73 years. He held teaching, administrative and ministerial positions at …
Fr. L. Paul Fitterer, SJ, died October 15, 2025, at Sacred Heart Jesuit Center in Los Gatos, California. He was 94 years old. During his 75 years as a Jesuit, he held a variety of teaching and leadership positions in Jesuit schools of the Pacific Northwest. Louis Paul Fitterer was born in Ellensburg, Washington, the …
Fr. David J. Anderson, SJ, former campus minister and alumni chaplain at Seattle University, died unexpectedly in Spokane, Washington, on September 5, 2025. He was 61 years old. He was born in Rapid City, South Dakota, on March 20, 1964, one of five boys born to Edmund Anderson, a banker, and Marilyn Rae Gorman Anderson, …
Fr. Peter-Minh Quang Chu, SJ, author and minister to the Vietnamese community, died in a San Jose, California, hospital on September 14, 2025. He was 85 years old and a Jesuit for 44 years. Fr. Chu was born in Tho Ninh, in northern Vietnam (then French Indochina), on March 30, 1940. Intending to be a …
Fr. Albert A. Grosskopf, SJ, former associate pastor of St. Ignatius Church in San Francisco and campus minister at the University of San Francisco, died August 25, 2025, in the infirmary at Sacred Heart Jesuit Center in Los Gatos, California. He was 94 years old and had been a Jesuit for 75 years. He was …
Fr. Edward A. Reese, SJ, president of St. Ignatius College Preparatory in San Francisco and longtime Jesuit high school administrator, died peacefully in the early morning hours of August 2, 2025, at Sacred Heart Jesuit Center in Los Gatos, California. He was 82 years old and a member of the Jesuits for 63 years. Fr. …
Br. Arthur (Artie) W. Lee, SJ, died July 16, 2025, at Sacred Heart Jesuit Center in Los Gatos, California, at age 99. He was a Jesuit brother for almost 59 years, doing a variety of assignments at the Jesuit novitiate in Santa Barbara and for 45 years at St. Ignatius College Preparatory in San Francisco. …