On Saturday, August 26, 2000, Fr. Bill Pius Conlan died at Carroll Manor Nursing Center in Washington, DC. His Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated at St. Anthony of Padua Church in New Orleans on September 1, with the homily preached by Fr. John I. Reardon, a classmate. He was buried at the Dominican Friars plot, Rosaryville in Ponchatoula. A Memorial Mass was also celebrated at the Dominican House of Studies on September 1, where he had lived for 23 years.
For many years Bill had been a specialist with the Leonine Commission created in 1880 by Pope Leo XIII: 1969 till 1977, at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, and from 1977 until 1999, in Washington, DC. His principal critical texts involved the "Commentary of St. Thomas on Aristotles' Metaphysics" and "St. Thomas' Commentary on the Third Book of the Sentences of Peter Lombard". He had prepared for this research and textual criticism ministry by receiving a Licentiate in Medieval Studies from the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies in Toronto, Canada.
Between 1950 and 1964, Bill had been professor at Sacred Heart Dominican College in Houston, Siena Heights College in Adrian, Xavier University of New Orleans and St. Teresa College, Winona. He had also been chaplain at Rice University, Houston, from 1950 until 1954 and again between 1964 and 1966.
Bill was born in Dubuque, Iowa, February 22, 1921. He was professed at St. Thomas Aquinas Priory, River Forest, Illinois, on June 25, 1943. After receiving his Ph.D., and S.T.L. at the Pontifical Institute of Philosophy in River Forest, he did advanced studies at Le Saulchoir in France, and San Esteban in Salamanca, Spain. While at Le Saulchoir he was ordained deacon by Bishop Martin-Stanislaus Gillet, former Master General of the Dominican Order, and to the priesthood by Bishop Emile Blanchet on July 18, 1948.
In his memorial sermon, Fr. Fred Hinnebusch OP., stated: "Bill Conlan was a stellar representative of the apostolate of the desk - by his devoted labor on the Leonine Commission and with his erudition. How many of us realized the wealth of information he carried about in his head." Bill Conlan's ministry through 49 years involved faithful dedication to scholarship and teaching in the Dominican tradition.
For many years Bill had been a specialist with the Leonine Commission created in 1880 by Pope Leo XIII: 1969 till 1977, at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, and from 1977 until 1999, in Washington, DC. His principal critical texts involved the "Commentary of St. Thomas on Aristotles' Metaphysics" and "St. Thomas' Commentary on the Third Book of the Sentences of Peter Lombard". He had prepared for this research and textual criticism ministry by receiving a Licentiate in Medieval Studies from the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies in Toronto, Canada.
Between 1950 and 1964, Bill had been professor at Sacred Heart Dominican College in Houston, Siena Heights College in Adrian, Xavier University of New Orleans and St. Teresa College, Winona. He had also been chaplain at Rice University, Houston, from 1950 until 1954 and again between 1964 and 1966.
Bill was born in Dubuque, Iowa, February 22, 1921. He was professed at St. Thomas Aquinas Priory, River Forest, Illinois, on June 25, 1943. After receiving his Ph.D., and S.T.L. at the Pontifical Institute of Philosophy in River Forest, he did advanced studies at Le Saulchoir in France, and San Esteban in Salamanca, Spain. While at Le Saulchoir he was ordained deacon by Bishop Martin-Stanislaus Gillet, former Master General of the Dominican Order, and to the priesthood by Bishop Emile Blanchet on July 18, 1948.
In his memorial sermon, Fr. Fred Hinnebusch OP., stated: "Bill Conlan was a stellar representative of the apostolate of the desk - by his devoted labor on the Leonine Commission and with his erudition. How many of us realized the wealth of information he carried about in his head." Bill Conlan's ministry through 49 years involved faithful dedication to scholarship and teaching in the Dominican tradition.
On Saturday, August 26, 2000, Fr. Bill Pius Conlan died at Carroll Manor Nursing Center in Washington, DC. His Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated at St. Anthony of Padua Church in New Orleans on September 1, with the homily preached by Fr. John I. Reardon, a classmate. He was buried at the Dominican Friars plot, Rosaryville in Ponchatoula. A Memorial Mass was also celebrated at the Dominican House of Studies on September 1, where he had lived for 23 years.
For many years Bill had been a specialist with the Leonine Commission created in 1880 by Pope Leo XIII: 1969 till 1977, at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, and from 1977 until 1999, in Washington, DC. His principal critical texts involved the "Commentary of St. Thomas on Aristotles' Metaphysics" and "St. Thomas' Commentary on the Third Book of the Sentences of Peter Lombard". He had prepared for this research and textual criticism ministry by receiving a Licentiate in Medieval Studies from the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies in Toronto, Canada.
Between 1950 and 1964, Bill had been professor at Sacred Heart Dominican College in Houston, Siena Heights College in Adrian, Xavier University of New Orleans and St. Teresa College, Winona. He had also been chaplain at Rice University, Houston, from 1950 until 1954 and again between 1964 and 1966.
Bill was born in Dubuque, Iowa, February 22, 1921. He was professed at St. Thomas Aquinas Priory, River Forest, Illinois, on June 25, 1943. After receiving his Ph.D., and S.T.L. at the Pontifical Institute of Philosophy in River Forest, he did advanced studies at Le Saulchoir in France, and San Esteban in Salamanca, Spain. While at Le Saulchoir he was ordained deacon by Bishop Martin-Stanislaus Gillet, former Master General of the Dominican Order, and to the priesthood by Bishop Emile Blanchet on July 18, 1948.
In his memorial sermon, Fr. Fred Hinnebusch OP., stated: "Bill Conlan was a stellar representative of the apostolate of the desk - by his devoted labor on the Leonine Commission and with his erudition. How many of us realized the wealth of information he carried about in his head." Bill Conlan's ministry through 49 years involved faithful dedication to scholarship and teaching in the Dominican tradition.
For many years Bill had been a specialist with the Leonine Commission created in 1880 by Pope Leo XIII: 1969 till 1977, at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, and from 1977 until 1999, in Washington, DC. His principal critical texts involved the "Commentary of St. Thomas on Aristotles' Metaphysics" and "St. Thomas' Commentary on the Third Book of the Sentences of Peter Lombard". He had prepared for this research and textual criticism ministry by receiving a Licentiate in Medieval Studies from the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies in Toronto, Canada.
Between 1950 and 1964, Bill had been professor at Sacred Heart Dominican College in Houston, Siena Heights College in Adrian, Xavier University of New Orleans and St. Teresa College, Winona. He had also been chaplain at Rice University, Houston, from 1950 until 1954 and again between 1964 and 1966.
Bill was born in Dubuque, Iowa, February 22, 1921. He was professed at St. Thomas Aquinas Priory, River Forest, Illinois, on June 25, 1943. After receiving his Ph.D., and S.T.L. at the Pontifical Institute of Philosophy in River Forest, he did advanced studies at Le Saulchoir in France, and San Esteban in Salamanca, Spain. While at Le Saulchoir he was ordained deacon by Bishop Martin-Stanislaus Gillet, former Master General of the Dominican Order, and to the priesthood by Bishop Emile Blanchet on July 18, 1948.
In his memorial sermon, Fr. Fred Hinnebusch OP., stated: "Bill Conlan was a stellar representative of the apostolate of the desk - by his devoted labor on the Leonine Commission and with his erudition. How many of us realized the wealth of information he carried about in his head." Bill Conlan's ministry through 49 years involved faithful dedication to scholarship and teaching in the Dominican tradition.
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