34 CATHOLIC NEW YORK January 14, 2021 Dr. Ruth T. Doyle, Was Director of Pastoral that as much as possible.” Research and Planning for the Archdiocese Born and raised in London, she came to New York to attend Manhat- Dr. Ruth T. Doyle, who served for 22 years as spent three years on the research tanville College in Purchase, where the director of pastoral research and planning staff of the executive council of the she earned a bachelor’s degree. At for the archdiocese, died Dec. 31. She was 93. Episcopal Church of New York. Fordham, she also received a master’s She worked for the archdiocese for nearly 30 In a Catholic New York story in in sociology before earning her Ph.D. years, serving as director of pastoral research October 1999 when she received the at age 65. and planning from 1980 to 2002. top award for exemplary service to Married to the late Stephen Doyle Dr. Doyle, who held a doctorate in sociology the Church from Center for Applied for 60 years, she is survived by her from Fordham University, also was the editor of Research in the Apostolate (CARA), Dr. Ruth T. Doyle children, Elizabeth and Peter, and Clergy Report and served on the archdiocesan she said she considered the work done by her three grandchildren. Pastoral Council. office a vital service to the Church. “I believe A Funeral Mass was offered Jan. 9 at St. Mar- She also served on the Asian/Pacific Islander any decisions in planning must be made on garet of Cortona Church in the Riverdale sec- Council. facts and real data which is accumulated in a tion of the Bronx. Burial was in Gate of Heaven Before coming to the archdiocese in 1972, she formulated way,” she said. “We try to supply Cemetery. Swiss Cardinal Henri Schwery, Retired Bishop of Sion Swiss Cardinal Henri Schwery, the after being ordained to the priest- St. John Paul named him to the College of retired bishop of Sion, died Jan. 7. He hood in 1957 at age 25. The last of Cardinals in 1991. For health reasons, he retired was 88. 11 children, he was born in Saint- as bishop of Sion in 1995 at the age of 62, but In a condolence message, Pope Leonard, Switzerland. He studied at he continued as a member of several Vatican Francis said Cardinal Schwery had the major seminary of Sion nearby dicasteries and took part in the conclave that fought “for the unity of the Church and in Rome. elected Pope Benedict XVI in 2005. on different occasions.” After his ordination, he taught His Funeral Mass was to take place Jan. 11 in “Attentive to the pastoral needs physics, math, religion and the his- Sion without the presence of the faithful due to of the faithful, he invested himself tory of sciences at Lycee College the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. —CNS in priestly vocations and the forma- in Sion and was the director of the tion of priests,” the pope wrote. He minor seminary of Sion and rec- also recognized the late cardinal as Cardinal Henri Schwery tor of Lycee College. From 1958 to a “man of science” and a shepherd “intensely 1977, he spent a month every year serving as a devoted to guiding his diocese.” military chaplain. CATHOLIC Cardinal Schwery’s diocese was home to St. Paul VI appointed him Bishop of Sion in 1977. Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre’s priestly society. He served as a member of the Vatican Congre- As president of the Swiss Bishops’ Conference gation for Catholic Education from 1978 to 1983. NEW YORK in the late 1980s, the cardinal had appealed to He was active in promoting the pastoral care AMERICA’S LARGEST CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER the then-suspended archbishop not to defy of families, vocations and evangelization in St. John Paul II by ordaining bishops without Europe and served as president of the Swiss papal approval. 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