…bearing with one another in love, making every effort to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Today is the 3rd anniversary of the Jesuit Avery Robert Cardinal Dulles‘ entrance into life eternal. I pray for a friend’s solicitude but now from a different perch. O God, who chose your servant John Patrick Cardinal Foley from among your priests and endowed him pontifical dignity in the apostolic priesthood, grant, we pray, that […]
Yesterday, about 50 friends of Avery Cardinal Dulles met at Fordham University Church to remember him before God on the occasion of his first anniversary of death. Sister Anne-Marie Kirmse, O.P., the Cardinal’s friend and administrative assistant, gathered us for Mass celebrated by Jesuit Father Joseph McShane with the homily delivered by Jesuit Father Joseph […]
O God, Who was pleased to raise They servant Avery Robert Dulles to the dignity of the cardinalate, we beseech Thee, vouchsafe to admit him to the fellowship of Thine Apostles forevermore. Amen. A noon Mass is being celebrated at Fordham University for the soul of His Eminence, Avery Cardinal Dulles. Pray for him.
Cardinal Avery Dulles is still producing intellectual stimulation. Due to be released next week is Evangelization for the Third Millennium (Paulist Press), the final work that he had already in progress during what became the Cardinal’s final months. In her Preface to this anthology, Cardinal Dulles’ longtime colleague, administrative & research assistant and former student, […]
Recently, Fordham University’s Walsh Library, in collaboration with one of Cardinal Avery Dulles‘ closest collaborators, Dominican Sister Ann-Marie Kirmse, displayed many of the cardinal’s possessions. It brings together the many intimate things of Avery Dulles who died 12 December. The exhibit gives us another testimony to the great American Jesuit priest, theologian, cardinal and friend. […]
Our friend is finally resting in peace. Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., was buried on June 1 at the Shrine of the North American Martyrs in Auriesville, NY. He died on December 12th. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated December 18th at the Cathedral of Saint Patrick by Cardinal Edward Egan. Cardinal Dulles was the […]
Nearly 2 months after Cardinal Dulles’ death, the formal announcement of the endowed chair that honors the Cardinal is made at Fordham University. University President Father Joseph McShane made the “unofficial” announcement at the first Mass at which we prayed for the peaceful repose of the Cardinal. It is hoped that a professor will be […]
Catholics and other members of the Christian community gathered at the Cathedral of Saint Patrick to pray the Mass of Christian Burial for Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J. with Edward Michael Cardinal Egan as principal celebrant and homilist. Cardinal Dulles was buried in the Jesuit cemetery in Auriesville, NY. Cardinal Dulles died at 90 years old on […]
TO MY VENERABLE BROTHER CARDINAL EDWARD EGAN ARCHBISHOP OF NEW YORK HAVING LEARNED WITH SADNESS OF THE DEATH OF CARDINAL AVERY DULLES, I OFFER YOU MY HEARTFELT CONDOLENCES, WHICH I ASK YOU KINDLY TO CONVEY TO HIS FAMILY, HIS CONFRERES IN THE SOCIETY OF JESUS AND THE ACADEMIC COMMUNITY OF FORDHAM UNIVERSITY. I JOIN […]
Avery Robert Cardinal Dulles, S.J. (1918-2008) Requiescat in pace Cardinal Deacon of the Church of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary on via Lata In his own words, a small portion of Cardinal Dulles’ legacy is found here. An extensive archive of Dulles’ thinking can be read at First […]