Archdiocese of Newark death notices: July 2023
We remember and pray for our dearly departed clergy and men and women religious whose Masses of Christian Burial were held in July:
Msgr. Joseph Chiang
A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on Monday, July 31, 2023 at the Church of Saint Mary in Rutherford for Msgr. Joseph Chiang.
Monsignor Chiang passed away at the age of 92, on July 25, 2023.
Monsignor Chiang was born on Jan. 20, 1931, in Fuzhou City, Fujian province, China. He was the son of the late ZhiJin Jiang, and JinYu Chen. The older brother of two late brothers, ShengWang Jiang and XinDe Jiang, and one late sister, Sister Mary Kong O.P. who was a Dominican nun. His late maternal grandmother was French who met a Chinese man in Madagascar where they got married and had three daughters, later they moved back to China and settled in Fuzhou City. Msgr. Chiang was talented in speaking different languages, Mandarin, English, Spanish, Latin, and Italian, as well as many dialects including Cantonese, Fuzhouese, and Taiwanese.
Monsignor Chiang was inspired by his aunt who was a Dominican nun in Hong Kong, he left home to follow God’s call and studied religion at the age of 18, he was ordained on March 14, 1959 in Manila, Philippines. He was appointed the dean at St. Dominic High School in Taiwan from 1960 to 1967. Msgr. Chiang studied and earned his first master’s degree from The Catholic University of America in Modern Language. Later he pursued his second master’s degree from New York University in Linguistic. He was incardinated in 1983 and was named Honorary Prelate of His Holiness John Paul II, in 2000. He was director of the adjunct clergy from 1987 to 1990, then a member of the Incardination Board, while being in residence at Our Lady of Visitation Rectory in Paramus.
Msgr. Chiang was the founder and former President of the North America Chinese Catholic Association (NACCA) and also the National Director of The Chinese Apostolate in the U.S. and Canada between 1988 to 2004 where he found the communities in many states. He was the national chaplain of Catholic War Veterans for many years. He also was the mentor of the Chinese Catholic marriage and encounter organization in the US and Canada. He became the pastor of Holy Rosary Church in Jersey City in 1998 and retired in 2003.
He moved to the assisted living facility in Hillsborough in 2021 after 18 years of being a resident of St. John Vianney Residence in Rutherford due to declining in his memory.
He was a dedicated priest and a great man with a beautiful disposition. He was always positive, helpful, supportive, kind, and generous to all people around him. He loved his family very much and supported and educated the younger generations the best he could. He was a role model for the younger generations of the family. He was the greatest person in the family. He was also known as a miracle man who survived two cancers. He served God and his people for his entire life. May he rest in peace. “Come after me I will make you fishers of men” – Mt.:4.19
Msgr. Chiang is survived by his nephews, nieces, grandnephews, and grandnieces. He will be deeply missed by Jiang’s family and the Chinese Catholic Communities around the world where he left his footprint on.
Sister Concetta Einhorn, SCC.
A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2023 at the Chapel of Mary Immaculate at the Motherhouse in Mendham for Sister Concetta Einhorn, Sister of Christian Charity.
Sister Einhorn passed away on July 27, 2023, at Mallinckrodt Convent, Mendham, N.J.
Marie Evelyn Anne Einhorn was born in Elizabeth, N.J., on April 18, 1928. Her parents, Jacob and Louise (Schuster) Einhorn, were blessed with 10 children, four boys and six girls.
Evelyn entered the Sisters of Christian Charity on June 9, 1944 in Mendham and began her Novitiate on Aug. 21, 1945, receiving the name Sister Concetta. She professed her First Vows on Aug. 21, 1947, and her Perpetual Vows on Aug. 20, 1953.
Sister Einhorn was a graduate of St. Michael School, Elizabeth, and Immaculata High School, Mendham, N.J. She earned a BA from Villanova University, Villanova, Penna., and a Master of Science from Marywood College (now University), Scranton, Penna.
During 52 years of ministry in the field of education, Sister Einhorn served in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, and Florida. Her ministry in Pennsylvania included: Wilkes-Barre, (St. Ann’s and St. Nicholas); Williamsport (St. Boniface); Philadelphia (St. Aloysius, Our Lady Help of Christians and Nativity BVM); Harrisburg (St. Lawrence and Bishop McDevitt); Mountain Top (St. Jude); Kingston (Kingston Central Catholic); Pottsville (St. John the Baptist); Luzerne (Sacred Heart); Jim Thorpe (St. Joseph); Allentown (Our Lady Help of Christians); New Jersey: Rockaway (St. Cecilia); Jersey City (St. Nicholas); and Netcong (St. Michael); New York: Kingston (St. Peter); Connecticut: Kensington (St. Paul); and Florida: Winter Park (St. Margaret Mary). Many times, these ministries would include classroom teaching, as well as service as principal and superior of the convent. In later years, she transitioned into various school support staff roles.
In 1999, she came to the Motherhouse in Mendham to perform clerical tasks in the administrative offices. In 2018, she was among the sisters to move to the new Motherhouse in Mendham, where she participated in a ministry of prayer and presence until the time of her death.
Sister Einhorn is survived by many family members and the Sisters of Christian Charity. She was preceded in death by her parents and all nine of her siblings.
Sister Joan Walters, SC
A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2023 at the Holy Family Chapel in Convent Station, N.J.,for Sister Joan Walters, Sisters of Charity of St. Elizabeth.
Sister died July 24, 2023.
Sister was the Director of St. Augustine School, Union City, a teacher at the Academy of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Tenafly, and other assignments throughout the archdiocese.
Father James F. Joyce S.J.
A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on Thursday, July 27, 2023 at Fordham University Church in New York for Father James F. Joyce, formerPresident of St. Peter’s Prep.
Father Joyce died July 21, 2023. He was 77.
James F. Joyce,was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Aug.22, 1945, to John and Marie (O’Dea) Joyce. He graduated from St. Saviour Elementary School and then Regis High School. During his high school years, he picked up the life-long nickname “B” and, as he’d be proud to tell you, he “worked as a laborer for the NYC Department of Water Supply, Gas & Electricity.” Right after high school, he entered the Society of Jesus in 1963 at St. Andrew-on-Hudson where he did his novitiate and juniorate, followed by philosophy studies for one year at Loyola Seminary, Shrub Oak, N.Y., and two years at St. Louis University (1963-69). He did his regency at St. Peter’s Prep in Jersey City teaching history and coaching sports (1969-72). During this time, he also earned a master’s degree in American Studies at Seton Hall University.
Father Joyce went on to study theology, first at Woodstock College in New York, and then, when Woodstock closed, to Regis College in Toronto, Canada (1972-75). After ordination to the priesthood in 1975, Father Joyce’s first assignment was to direct retreats at Mount Manresa on Staten Island (1975-77). Next came tertianship in Ireland (1977-78), where he also worked for peace, social justice, and reconciliation through the Glencree Reconciliation Centre, and became filled with zeal for peace in Ireland. After tertianship, Father Joyce returned to New York where he worked at Covenant House in Manhattan (1978-81). He took his final vows in 1979 in the Covenant House Chapel.
After Covenant House, Father Joyce spent a year as an associate at St. Ignatius Parish in Brooklyn while working as part-time chaplain at Kings County Hospital (1981-82). For two years then he lived at the Nativity Mission Center Rectory and was the Province Director of Social Ministries, representing the province on social justice issues and serving as prison chaplain first at Riker’s Island and then “The Tombs” (1982-84). Father Joyce spent the next six years (1984-90) in the Bronx as the local superior at the Manida St. Jesuit Community in Hunt’s Point where he continued as Province Director of Social Ministries and for a year (1988-89) was the Director of “The Jesuit Office.”
In 1990, Father Joyce was named President of St. Peter’s Prep in Jersey City, after which, in 1994, he had a working sabbatical with the Jesuit Refugee Service in West Africa: Liberia, Guinea, and Cote d’Ivoire. In 1995, Father Joyce moved back to the Nativity Mission Center while he served as Provincial Assistant for Social and Pastoral Ministry (1995-99). In 1999, he headed to Western, N.Y., for a stint at St. Ann’s Parish in Buffalo, which included his being the founding President of the Nativity/San Miguel School there (1999-2008). Then after a year’s sabbatical at Fordham’s Loyola Hall (2008-09), Father Joyce became the Superior at Murray-Weigel Hall, the Jesuit Health Care Residence in the Bronx (2009-2012). From the Bronx, he headed to Baltimore where for the next four years he was chaplain at Mercy Medical Center (2012-16). From Baltimore, Father Joyce traveled to Kingston, Jamaica, where he filled in as pastor at St. Annie’s Parish for a year (2016-17).
Health concerns brought Father Joyce back to the Province in 2017, for a short time at Campion Center, Weston, Mass., and then to the Murray-Weigel-Kohlmann Jesuit Community in the Bronx. There Father Joyce continued his life-long commitment to social justice issues while praying for the Church and the Society of Jesus. Declining health forced Father Joyce to move from Kohlmann Hall to Murray-Weigel Hall in 2021 where he boldly battled pancreatic cancer until his peaceful death on July 21, 2023. May he now rest from his labors in peace with Jesus whom he served so very well.
Father Patrick W. Donohue
A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on Monday, July 17, 2023, at St. Mary’s Church in Dumont, N.J. for Father Patrick W. Donohue.
After a long and valiant battle with cancer, Father Donohue succumbed to his illness on July 12, 2023.
Born in Nyack, N.Y., and raised in Ridgewood, N.J. the oldest of six, Father Donohue felt a call to the priesthood at an early age. Ordained by the Archdiocese of Newark in 1975, Father Donohue began his long pastoral career at St. Bridget’s Church in Newark. Father’s ministry was enhanced by his keen ability to connect with people from all walks of life. Parishioners looked forward to his gift to connect the Gospel with every day experiences.
Most recently, Father Donohue lived in residence at St. Mary’s Church in Dumont where he previously served as temporary administrator in 2015. Father Donohue’s other assignments included St. Mary of the Assumption, Elizabeth; Holy Trinity (Administrator), Hackensack; Our Lady Queen of Peace (Administrator), Maywood; Sacred Heart (Pastor), Vailsburg; Our Lady of Grace, Hoboken; and St. Bridget’s (Pastor), Newark.
Additionally, Father Donohue was the Dean of Bergen South Central and Essex Vicariate. He was the director of the Field Education Program at Immaculate Conception Seminary in South Orange, he led the Indian and Negro mission for the Archdiocese and at one time he ran the food assistance program for the entire city of Newark.
Father Donohue felt privileged to serve a diversity of communities, which provided him a great sense of community as he experienced the multi-racial and multi-ethnic cultures, languages, traditions, and cuisines within Bergen, Hudson, and Essex Counties. Father Donohue has been a 32-year Chaplain to the Newark St. Patrick’s Day Parade and was Deputy Grand Marshal in 2015. He was an active participant in the Bergen Irish community and proudly served in numerous chaplaincy roles for Irish organizations in both Essex and Bergen Counties.
In June 2000, on the 25th anniversary of his ordination, Father Donohue wrote: “No matter what title I may have, or where I have been, I basically have done the same things. I pray, read, reflect, write, preach, visit homes and hospitals, teach, listen, love and care, and I have received that hundred-fold that the Lord promises. Thanks for being a part of that gift.”
Father Donohue was predeceased by his parents, William A. and Alicia Kane Donohue of Ridgewood, and his nephew AJ Donohue of Brunswick Ga. He is survived by siblings: Teresa M Donohue, CSJP, John Donohue (Lorraine) of Jekyll Island, GA, Bill Donohue (Terrilyn) of Flowery Branch, GA, Maureen Donohue (Thomas McNabola) of Bernardsville, NJ and Alicia Cannon (Roy) of South Brunswick, NJ. Uncle Pat was dearly loved by five nieces and two nephews as well as six great nephews and one great niece.
