October 21, 2018 the 29Th Week in Ordinary Time Volume 68:3 DIOCESE of COLUMBUS TIMES
CATHOLIC OCTOBER 21, 2018 THE 29TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME VOLUME 68:3 DIOCESE OF COLUMBUS TIMES FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS: FAITH AND FOOTBALL Catholic Times 2 October 21, 2018 Editor’s reflections by Doug Bean Fr. Adrian Dionne, OP, Goodbye Columbus Day? Sadly, the city of Columbus de- respect, but as is passed away on Oct. 11, 2018 cided this year not to observe the in the case with federal holiday honoring the city’s most everything Funeral Mass for Father Adrian Dionne, OP, 96, namesake, Christopher Columbus, nowadays, the who died Thursday, Oct. 11 at the Mohun Health for the first time. decision seems Care Center in Columbus, will be celebrated Fri- City offices remained open on politically moti- day, Oct. 19 at Somerset St. Joseph Church, with Monday, Oct. 8 while the federal vated. burial in the parish cemetery. government was shut down, as it And you have to wonder what’s He was born Joseph Dionne on May 17, 1922, in has done annually since 1934, to next. Providence, Rhode Island to the late Ludger and commemorate the day in 1492 that Take down the statue of Columbus Elizabeth (Adams) Dionne, and was a graduate of the Catholic explorer from Europe in front of City Hall? It was donated LaSalle Academy in Providence. landed in the Americas. in 1955 by Genoa, Italy, which is con- He was accepted as a preparatory student for the priesthood Columbus, with a population of sidered to be his birthplace. in the Order of Preachers (the Dominican Order) in 1940 at Prov- 860,000, is the largest city in the Unit- Or is it possible that the city would idence College and entered the Dominican novitiate in 1942 at ed States to be named after him.
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