JFK Pastor dies

The Washington Post reports today that Father Martin J. Casey, SJ, passed away December 10 at the Jesuit residence of the Georgetown University community. He was 96 and suffered from congestive heart failure. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1931 and was ordained in 1943. He taught for many years in the Philippines before returning to the United States He was pastor of Georgetown’s Holy Trinity Catholic Church from 1958 to 1964, including the time President John F. Kennedy and his family were parishioners. He also served as Pastor of Old St. Joseph’s Church in Philadelphia. He moved to the Georgetown University community in 1973 and was Community Treasurer until 1992.

Requiescat in pace

Among his survivors is a sister: Mother Marie Therese, O.C.D. of the Carmelite Monastery in Mobile, Alabama.