Tom Cornell, Catholic worker and Dorothy Day lieutenant, dies at 88
United StatesRNS Tom Cornell, the longtime Catholic pacifist who humbly referred to Catholic Worker co-founder Dorothy Day as “my spiritual mother”, died on 1st August in a hospital near the Peter Maurin Catholic Worker farm that he helped run with his family in Marlboro, New York, where he lived with his wife of 58 years, […]
In the US, William Sterling Cary, pioneering Black pastor, dies at 94
Chicago, USAP William Sterling Cary, a pioneering minister and civil rights activist who was the first Black person in prominent church leadership roles including president of the National Council of Churches, has died, according to family members. He was 94. Cary died Sunday at his suburban Chicago home in Flossmoor following heart failure after a […]
George Clements, Chicago priest known for adopting sons, dies at 87
Chicago, USRNS Rev George Clements, a civil rights activist whose life was turned into a made-for-TV movie after he became the first Catholic priest to adopt a child, died on Monday at age 87. Clements reportedly had suffered a stroke and heart attack within the last month. In a 22nd January, 1990, file photo, Dick […]