Obituaries

CHICAGO -- Father Andrew Greeley, a Chicago archdiocesan priest and well-known novelist, journalist and sociologist, died May 29 at his home. He was 85 years old.

Father Greeley was perhaps most widely recognized for the more than 60 novels he wrote, some considered scandalous with their portraits of hypocritical and sinful clerics. But he also wrote more than 70 works of nonfiction, often on the sociology of religion, including 2004's "Priests: A Calling in Crisis."

A funeral Mass was celebrated May 24 in St. Joseph Chapel of the Sisters of the Most Precious Blood in O'Fallon for Sister Ursula Stolz, who served the community in a number of roles for 65 years -- including as a bishops' miter-maker.

Sister Ursula died May 21 at Villa Theresa Haven in O'Fallon. Born Margaret Mary Stolz in Milwaukee, Sister Ursula entered the Sisters of the Most Precious Blood in 1945 from Elyria, Ohio, after working as a secretary for 12 years. She made her first profession of vows in 1948.

MAUMEE, Ohio -- Ordination "meant everything" to Father Scott R. Carroll.

"His dream was to be ordained a priest." That's how the 46-year-old priest was remembered by Father Keith Stripe, pastor of his home parish of St. Joseph.

Father Carroll lost his battle with cancer May 10, just two days after Toledo Bishop Leonard P. Blair ordained him a priest at the family home.

A memorial Mass will be celebrated Friday, May 31, for Sister Jeanne Schaedler, MM, a missioner for nearly 40 years in South Korea, at the Maryknoll Sisters Main Chapel in Maryknoll, N.Y.

Sister Jeanne died May 16 at Maryknoll Residential Care IV in Maryknoll. She was 78 and had been a Maryknoll Sister for 58 years.

She was born in Melrose, an area now part of Wildwood, and entered Maryknoll in 1954. She made her first profession of vows at the motherhouse in 1957 and her final vows in Korea in 1963.

A memorial Mass was celebrated May 21 in the Marian Chapel at the Sarah Community in Bridgeton for Sister Teresa Marie Schmitz, a Franciscan Sister of Mary for 76 years.

Sister Teresa, who served as a nurse, radiology technologist and pastoral associate, died May 13 at the Sarah Community in Bridgeton. She was 92.

A funeral Mass was celebrated May 13 for Sister Mary Salvador of the Heart of Jesus at the Passionist Nuns Monastery Chapel of the Immaculate Conception in Ellisville. Sister Mary Salvador died May 8 at the Passionist Nuns Monastery. She was 75.A native of New Orleans, she was baptized Eleanor Ann Bologna. She entered religious life as a Sister of Christian Charity, beginning as an aspirant in 1952. She entered the community in 1957, receiving the religious name Sister Mary Salvador. She professed her first vows in 1959 and her perpetual vows in 1965.