by webmaster | Feb 20, 2010 | Obituaries, Parishes
When talking about priests the phrase ‘men set apart’ is often used. The trouble is that such an image can expresses superiority – not servants but masters. And when the cracks and failings of human finiteness show in priests, waves of shock, horror...
by webmaster | Feb 20, 2010 | Obituaries, Parishes
Fr Joseph O’Brien who died on 25th January 2010 aged 87 was buried after his funeral Mass on 5th February at Sacred Heart Church, Hull, where he had been ordained as a priest for our Diocese by Bishop McClean on 22nd February 1975. Bishop Terry was the Principal...
by webmaster | Sep 5, 2009 | Obituaries, Parishes, Religious Communities
Fr Gerald Hughes, a monk of Ampleforth Abbey, has died at the age of 80. Fr Gerald died peacefully in his sleep on 31 August 2009 while on holiday with family relations in York. He was educated at Ampleforth and in 1947 went to the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst....
by webmaster | Jun 6, 2009 | Obituaries, Parishes
Fr Austin O’Neill, retired parish priest of St Aelred’s, York, died on Saturday 25 April after a long period of ill health. He was 73 and had been a priest for almost 48 years, 21 of which were at St Aelred’s. Education was close to his heart. He...
by webmaster | Feb 28, 2009 | Obituaries, Religious Communities
Fr Benet Perceval, the oldest member of the monastic Community at Ampleforth, died peacefully in the monastery infirmary in the early hours of Friday 30th January 2009, surrounded by some of his fellow monks in prayer. Fr Benet’s death was marked later that day...
by webmaster | Feb 28, 2009 | Obituaries
Sr Mary Carolan DC, Headmistress of St George’s RC Primary School 1958-1985, died peacefully in St Vincent’s Nursing Home, Pinner on 29th November 2008. Bride Carolan was born in Middlesbrough in 1921 and educated at St Philomena’a and Newlands...