Northern Ireland

Sister Frances (Betty Jane) Kirk, SSJ, died on May 9 at the age of 90. She the first woman grand marshal of the Philadelphia St. Patrick’s Day Parade (1990) and a coordinator for Project Children, a program that brought children from war-torn Northern Ireland to the US for the summer. A memorial mass will held for here on Friday, June 9, 2023, at 10:30 AM, and will be livestreamed from the Chapel of St. Joseph’s […] Read More