NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTER, JANUARY 3, 2021 2 Memoriam Global Events Zoom School Holy See Happenings Pictures showcase world developments throughout A look at what educational lessons can be gleaned A look back at Pope Francis’ agenda over the past year. 2020. from the pandemic. Vatican, page 7 World, page 4 Books & Education, page 5 2020’s Notable Departures of (97). player (65); the year in review Nov. 24 — Paolo Gabriele, personal June 13 — Mike McCormick, U.S. base- butler to Pope Benedict XVI (54). ball player (81). June 20 — Jim Kiick, U.S. football player (73). Jan. 12 — Father Francis MacNutt, U.S. Sports June 21 — Angela Madsen, U.S. Paraly- priest (94). Jan. 1 — Don Larsen, U.S. baseball player mipic medalist (60). Jan. 23 — Father Thaddeus Malanowski, (90); David Stern, NBA commissioner June 24 — Eddie Kasko, U.S. baseball U.S. priest, deputy chief of chaplains of (77). player and (88). the U.S. Army (97). Jan. 10 — Ed Sprague, Sr., U.S. baseball June 28 — Joe Bugel, U.S. football Feb. 11 — Father George Coyne, U.S. player (74). (80). priest, astronomer, director of the Vati- Jan. 26 — Kobe Bryant, U.S. basketball July 2 — Jon Gilliam, U.S. football player can Observatory (87); Ferdinand Ulrich, player (41). (81). German philosopher (88). Jan. 28 — Chris July 16 — Tony Taylor, Cuban baseball Feb. 15 — Virgil Dechant, supreme Doleman, U.S. player (84). knight of the Knights of Columbus (89). football player July 28 — John McNamara, U.S. baseball March 3 — Mother Tekla Famiglietti, ab- (58). manager (88). bess general of the Bridgettines (83). Feb. 3 — Willie Aug. 5 — Horace Clarke, U.S. baseball March 15 — Auxiliary Gilbert Wood, U.S. football player (81). Espinosa Chávez of San Diego (87). player (83). Aug. 18 — Dale Hawerchuk, Canadian March 18 — Sister Kathleen Appler, Feb. 15 — Tony hockey player (57). superior general of the Daughters of Fernandez, Do- Aug. 24 — Carl Garrett, U.S. football Charity (68). minican baseball player (57). player (72). March 29 — Jesuit Father Joseph Feb. 17 — Mickey Wright, U.S. Hall of Aug. 29 — Cliff Robinson, U.S. basket- O’Hare, president of Fordham University Fame golfer (85). ball player (53). (89). March 26 — Curly Neal, U.S. basketball Aug. 30 — John Thompson, U.S. basket- April 6 — Stephen Sulyk, player (77); , U.S. baseball ball coach (78). Ukrainian archbishop of Philadelphia player (78). Aug. 31 — , U.S. baseball (95). April 4 — Tom Dempsey, U.S. football player (75). May 27 — Peter V. Sampo, Catholic player (73); Harland Svare, U.S. football Sept. 6 — , U.S. baseball educator, founder of Magdalen College player, coach (89). player (81). and St. Thomas More College (89). April 5 — Bobby Mitchell, U.S. football Sept. 8 — Gene Budig, U.S. baseball June 5 — Bishop James Murray of player (84). PAYING TRIBUTE. police chaplains read the names of the members of the NYPD who have died due to executive (81). Youngstown, Ohio (71). April 8 — Pat Stapleton, Canadian Sept. 17 — Larry Wilson, U.S. football illnesses related to COVID-19 at a ceremony Oct. 5 in St. Patrick’s Cathedral in . In the United States, July 1 — Msgr. hockey player (79). player (82). more than 300,000 people died from the virus in 2020; worldwide deaths topped 1.6 million as of the end of last Georg Ratzinger, April 12 — Glenn Beckert, U.S. base- Sept. 23 — Gale Sayers, U.S. football German priest ball player (79); Jim Frey, U.S. baseball year. mpi43/MediaPunch/IPX player (77). and brother to manager (88); Tarvaris Jackson, U.S. Sept. 26 — Jay Johnstone, U.S. baseball Pope Emeritus football player (36); Doug Sanders, U.S. player (74). Dec. 1 — , U.S. baseball director (76). scholar, writer (98). Benedict XVI professional golfer (86). Oct. 2 — , U.S. baseball player (80). Aug. 1 — Wilford Brimley, U.S. actor, March 25 — Richard Reeves, U.S. writer (96). April 14 — Hank Steinbrenner, U.S. base- player (84); Ron Perranoski, U.S. base- Dec. 2 — Rafer Johnson, U.S. Olympic singer (85); Lawrence Laurent, U.S. (83). July 11 — Bishop ball executive (63). ball player (84). athlete and actor (86). television critic (95); Tom Pollock, U.S. June 25 — Joe Sinnott, U.S. comic-book Edward Kmiec of April 15 — Willie Davis, U.S. football Oct. 8 — Whitey Ford, U.S. baseball Dec. 7 — , U.S. baseball player studio executive, film producer (77); artist (93). Buffalo, New York (84). player (85); Damaso Garcia, Dominican player (91). (78). Reni Santoni, U.S. actor (82). July 12 — Joanna Cole, U.S. children’s July 15 — Archbishop Oscar Lipscomb baseball player (63). Oct. 11 — , U.S. baseball Aug. 6 — Wayne Fontana, English singer writer (75). of Mobile, Alabama (66). April 17 — Bobby Winkles, U.S. baseball player (77). Entertainment (74). July 21 — Dean Ing, U.S. author (89). July 17 — Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski manager (90). Oct. 14 — Fred Dean, U.S. football player Jan. 7 — Neil Peart, Canadian drummer Aug. 11 — Trini Lopez, U.S. singer, actor Aug. 5 — Pete Hamill, U.S. journalist, of Poland (80). April 20 — Mike Curtis, U.S. football (68). (67). (83); Sumner Redstone, U.S. media Grammy winner (85). July 20 — Sister Ruth Lewis, U.S. reli- player (77). Oct. 30 — Herb Adderley, U.S. football Jan. 8 — Buck Henry, U.S. actor, screen- executive (97). Aug. 7 — Bernard Bailyn, U.S. historian, gious sister (77). May 4 — Don Shula, U.S. football player, player (81). writer (89). Aug. 16 — Cathy Smith, Canadian singer two-time Pultizer winner (97). Sept. 2 — Cardinal Adrianus Simonis of coach (90). Nov. 9 — Tom Heinsohn, U.S. basketball Jan. 21 — Terry Jones, Welsh actor, (73). Aug. 24 — Gail Sheehy, U.S. author (83). the Netherlands (88). May 14 — Phyllis George, U.S. sports- player (86). screenwriter (77). Aug. 18 — Ben Cross, English actor (72); Sept. 16 — Stanley Crouch, U.S. music Sept. 5 — Cardinal Marian Jaworski of caster (70); Bob Watson, U.S. baseball Nov. 13 — Paul Hornung, U.S. football Jan. 27 — Jack Burns, U.S. comedian, Jack Sherman, U.S. guitarist with Red critic, novelist, poet (74). Poland (94). player and executive (74). player (84). actor, screenwriter (86). Hot Chili Peppers (64). Oct. 8 — Jim Dwyer, U.S. journalist, two- Sept. 11 — Father Anthony Cekada, U.S. May 16 — Michael McCaskey, U.S. Nov. 14 — Lindy McDaniel, U.S. baseball Jan. 30 — Fred Silverman, U.S. TV pro- Aug. 28 — Chadwick Boseman, U.S. time Pulitzer winner (63). priest, sedevacantist (69). sports executive (76). player (84). ducer (82). actor (43). Nov. 29 — Ben Bova, U.S. science fic- Sept. 24 — Archbishop John Myers of May 22 — Jerry Sloan, U.S. basketball Nov. 19 — Jake Scott, U.S. football Feb. 1 — Peter Serkin, U.S. classical Sept. 6 — Kevin tion writer (88). Newark, New Jersey (79). player (78). player (75). pianist (72). Dobson, U.S. actor Dec. 3 — Alison Lurie, U.S. novelist, Nov. 1 — Andrew Walther, president of May 23 — Eddie Sutton, U.S. Hall of Nov. 20 — Ken Schinkel, Canadian Feb. 5 — Kirk Douglas, U.S. actor (103). (77). Pulitzer winner (94). EWTN News (45). Fame basketball coach (84). hockey player (87). Feb. 7 — Orson Bean, U.S. actor (91). Sept. 10 — Dame Dec. 12 — John le Carré, British author Nov. 15 — Cardinal Raúl Vela Chiriboga June 5 — Kurt Thomas, U.S. gymnast Nov. 25 — Diego Maradona, Argentine Feb. 8 — Robert Conrad, U.S. actor (84). Diana Rigg, Eng- and novelist (89). of Ecuador (86). (64). soccer player (60). March 2 — James Lipton, U.S. TV host lish actress (82). Nov. 16 — Cardinal Henryk Gulbinowicz June 10 — Claudell Washington, U.S. (93). Sept. 14 — Al Science March 8 — Max von Sydow, Swedish- Kasha, U.S. song- March 18 — Alfred Worden, U.S. astro- born actor (90). writer (83). naut on Apollo 15 mission (88). March 20 — Kenny Rogers, U.S. singer Sept. 21 — Tommy DeVito, U.S. singer March 29 — Philip W. Anderson, U.S. (81). (92); Michael Lonsdale, British-French physicist, Nobel laureate (96). March 24 — Terrence McNally, U.S. actor (89). May 21 — Oliver E. Williamson, U.S. playwright (81). Sept. 29 — Mac Davis, U.S. singer, song- economist, Nobel laureate (87). March 29 — Joe Diffie, U.S. country writer (78); Helen Reddy, Australian- July 26 — Bill English, U.S. computer singer (61). U.S. singer, engineer, co-developer of the computer March 30 — Bill Withers, U.S. singer, actress (78). mouse (91). songwriter (81). Oct. 6 — Johnny Aug. 11 — Russell Kirsch, U.S. computer April 1 — Ellis Marsalis, Jr., U.S. jazz Nash, U.S. singer, scientist, inventor of the pixel, devel- pianist (85). songwriter (80); oper of the image scanner (91). April 5 — Honor Blackman, English Eddie Van Halen, Aug. 26 — Gerald Carr, U.S. astronaut, actress (94). Dutch-born U.S. served on Skylab 4 mission, aeronauti- April 6 — James Drury, U.S. actor (85). Hall of Fame musi- cal engineer (88). April 7 — John Prine, U.S. singer, song- cian (65). Sept. 20 — Ken Blaiklock, British Ant- writer (73). Oct. 7 — Tom Kennedy, U.S. game-show arctic explorer (92). April 9 — Mort Drucker, U.S. caricatur- host (93). Sept. 21 — Arthur Ashkin, U.S. scientist, Help ist, comics artist (91). Oct. 12 — Conchata Ferrell, U.S. actress Nobel laureate (98). April 15 — Brian Dennehy, U.S. actor (77). Oct. 7 — Mario Molina, Mexican chem- (81). Oct. 14 — Rhonda Fleming, U.S. actress ist, Nobel laureate (77). April 22 — Shir- (97). Nov. 12 — Masatoshi Koshiba, Japanese ley Knight, U.S. Oct. 21 — Marge Champion, U.S. ac- physicist, Nobel laureate (94). Us actress (83). tress, Emmy winner (101); Viola Smith, May 9 — Little U.S. drummer (107). Miscellaneous Richard, U.S. rock Oct. 23 — Jerry Jeff Walker, U.S. singer, songwriter (78). Jan. 9 — Galen Cole, U.S. World War II ‘n’ roll singer- veteran, philanthropist (94). songwriter (87). Oct. 31 — Sir Sean Connery, Scottish Spread actor (90). Feb. 16 — Theodore Johnson, U.S. Tuske- May 11 — Jerry gee Airman (95). Stiller, U.S. actor Nov. 7 — Norm Crosby, U.S. comedian (93). Feb. 25 — Hosni Mubarak, president of (92). Egypt (91). May 15 — Fred Willard, U.S. actor (86). Nov. 8 — , Canadian-U.S. game-show host (80). March 1 — Jack Welch, U.S. business May 18 — Ken Osmond, U.S. actor, executive, CEO of General Electric (84). police officer (76). Nov. 28 — David Prowse, English actor (85). March 4 — Rosalind Walter, U.S. inspira- June 3 — Bruce Jay Friedman, U.S. tion for Rosie the Riveter (95). author and screenwriter (90). Dec. 12 — Charley Pride, U.S. singer (86). March 28 — Tom Coburn, U.S. congress- June 8 — Bonnie Pointer, U.S. singer man (72). (69). April 1 — Edward Feightner, U.S. Navy June 18 — Dame Vera Lynn, British Publishing officer, flying ace (100). singer (103). Jan. 16 — Chris- April 8 — Linda Tripp, U.S. whistleblower June 19 — Sir Ian Holm, English actor topher Tolkien, in Clinton-Lewinsky scandal (70). (88). British academic, May 11 — Hutton Gibson, U.S. sedevacan- THE June 22 — Joel Schumacher, U.S. film editor of his tist, father of actor Mel Gibson (101). director (80). father J.R.R. Tolk- June 12 — William Sessions, FBI director June 29 — Johnny Mandel, U.S. com- ien’s posthumous (90). poser (94); Carl Reiner, U.S. actor, film works (95). July 17 — John Lewis, U.S. civil-rights director, writer (98). Jan. 23 — Stephen leader and politician (80). July 1 — Hugh Downs, U.S. broadcaster, James Joyce, Irish July 23 — Herman Cain, U.S. food execu- television host (99). literary executor of James Joyce (87); tive and politician (74). July 6 — Charlie Daniels, U.S. country Jim Lehrer, U.S. journalist, presenter for Sept. 18 — Ruth singer (83); Ennio Morricone, Italian film PBS NewsHour (85). Bader Ginsburg, composer (91). Jan. 31 — Mary Higgins Clark, U.S. associate justice July 7 — Jay Severin, U.S. radio talk author (92). of the U.S. Su- show host, political consultant (69). Feb. 1 — Howard E. Smither, U.S. musi- preme Court (87). July 12 — Kelly Preston, U.S. actress cologist (94). Nov. 23 — David TRUTH. (57). Feb. 5 — James Leo Garrett Jr., U.S. Dinkins, New York July 24 — , U.S. entertainer, theologian (94); John C. Whitcomb, U.S. mayor (83). television personality, game-show host theologian, author (95). Dec. 7 — Chuck (88). Feb. 6 — Roger Kahn, U.S. author (92). 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