This category contains obituaries and tributes, most of these are of people who are Catholic or who have a strong connection with the Catholic Church.
A Requiem Mass for Kathleen Griffin - much-loved broadcaster, journalist and author - one of the founding members of Catholic Voices, took place on Monday, 1 October, at the Holy Apostles church in Pimlico, London. The celebrants were Canon Pat Browne, Canon Robert Plourde, Fr Stephan Wang, Fr Paul Keane, Fr Robert McCabe and Fr David Sullivan. Tim Salmon read the eulogy written by Ian Peacock,...
We are sorry to announce the death from cancer of Kathleen Griffin, one of the three founding members of Catholic Voices, who will be remembered with great fondness by the dozens of people she trained in media interview and public speaking skills.
She died surrounded by her family and was given the last rites by her parish priest, Canon Pat Browne, and the Catholic Voices chaplain, Fr Ste...
Celia Brigstocke died on Thursday 16th August 2018 aged 63 from a perforated bowel and brain cancer.
Celia was the driving force behind the John Bradburne Memorial Society (JBMS), which she founded with the late John Reid in 1996 in memory of her Uncle John, who was the late warden of Mutemwa Leprosy and Care Settlement in Zimbabwe.
Celia had a classic middle-class upbringing. Her ...
We've just received this sad message from Kate Macpherson, daughter of Celia Brigstocke.
It is with a heavy heart that I write this email to you.
On Thursday 16th August 2018 Celia Brigstocke, John's niece, the secretary of John Bradburne Memorial Society, passed away at Royal Surrey Hospital.
She had been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer a couple of months ago a...
Paul Donovan writes:
Indefatigable peace campaigner, Sarah Hipperson, has died at the age of 90.
So ends a remarkable life dedicated to peace and justice.
Sarah lived in the east London suburb of Wanstead for many decades but it was her decision in 1983 to up sticks and move to join the peace protest at Greenham Common that brought her to national prominence.
Th...
David Alton writes: It's just over a year since Vin Garbutt died. If anything, since his death, his brilliant protest songs, never to be heard on mainstream media, have acquired a new generation of followers.
His passionate belief in justice, including the right to life of "lost innocents" is reflected in the powerful lyrics of prophetic songs that run counter to a society that e...
The award winning Salvadoran painter, Fernando Llort, has died, aged 69.
Llort's famous Romero Crosses - inspired by Archbishop Oscar Romero who was assassinated for speaking out during El Salvador's bloody civil war - have been displayed in Cathedrals, homes and parishes around the world.
Clare Dixon, CAFOD's Head of Latin America region, said: "It is with a heavy heart that we've...
Father Bryan Sydney Storey was born on 8th May 1933 in London. He was the oldest son of Dorothy and Sydney Storey. He also has a younger brother Keith, who died a few years ago. He was evacuated to Cornwall with his schoolmates in 1940. He and his brother Keith stayed with Rita Deacon (Auntie Rita) and her son Roger, who lived in Bossiney Road,Tintagel. He attended St Materiana Anglican Church ...
Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, died yesterday Hartford, United States, where he was undergoing treatment for Parkinson's disease. He was 74 years old.
In a condolence message to the Cardinal's sister Geneviève Dubert, Pope Francis recalled the fidelity and love of the late cardinal in the service of the Universal Church. "Ca...
Antonia Moffatt writes: It is with great sadness that I share the news of the sudden death of dear Fr Kevin Scallon. Although I was totally unprepared, at the great age of 80 years, it seems it was Fr Kevin's time to go home to his beloved Lord and Saviour and to meet Our Blessed Mother, St Joseph & St Patrick who he has served so faithfully all his life and especially during his p...
June 6th marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of US Senator Robert F Kennedy at the age of 43 in Los Angeles, California. His death in 1968 came five years after the assassination of his brother, President John F Kennedy, and only two months after that of Martin Luther King Jr.
Pope Paul VI recalled Bobby Kennedy at the Angelus address just three days after his death. "We would...
Dom Timothy Wright, former Abbot of Ampleforth Abbey, has died at the age of 76. He had been living at Ealing Abbey in London, while receiving medical treatment for cancer.
Martin Wright (Timothy was his monastic name) was born in New Ollerton in Nottinghamshire and, along with his three brothers, was educated at Ampleforth. Three of them - Stephen, Timothy and Ralph - joined the monastic...
Parishioners and colleagues paid tribute to Fr Albert Tungumale Baba, who was killed, together with about 20 faithful on 1 May when gunmen from Km5 attacked the church of Notre Dame de Fatima in Bangui, Central African Republic.
"Fr Albert, 71 years old and among the oldest priests of the clergy of Bangui, was a pastor esteemed and known for his simplicity and sympathy, and above all for ...
Margaret Knox was a writer who lived in diverse parts of the world and threw herself into both research and local life. Her versatility and intellectual curiosity are evident from her writings, which range from Voyage of Faith: The Story of the Catholic Church in Fiji: The First Century (Archdiocese of Suva, 1997) to an account of the cheese known as 'Suffolk Bang or Thump' - 'said to be "so ha...
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