In the Archdiocese of Baltimore, Father Allen served for a year as an assistant chaplain at Mercy Hospital in Baltimore. He was chaplain at Good Samaritan from 1982 to 2000. He also served as superior of the Ferdinand Wheeler House in Baltimore for three years.

Margaret Lori, mother of Archbishop William E. Lori, died Sept. 3 in New Albany, Ind. She was 103 years old.

A funeral Mass for Oblate Sister of Providence Dorothy Yancey was offered Aug. 22 at the Oblate Sisters of Providence motherhouse in Arbutus. Sister Dorothy died Aug. 13. She was 95.

The French army general appointed by President Emmanuel Macron to oversee the reconstruction of Notre Dame Cathedral will not see the reopening of the pearl of France Dec. 8, 2024. Army Gen. Jean-Louis Georgelin died Aug. 18 while hiking in the Pyrénées mountains.

A funeral Mass for Trinitarian Father Thomas Burke was offered Aug. 14 at St. Lawrence Martyr in Hanover. Father Burke died Aug. 11. He was 71.

A funeral Mass for Capuchin Franciscan Father Benjamin Madden was offered July 21 at the Shrine of Ss. Peter and Paul in Cumberland.

Deacon Edward Conway Sullivan Jr., who served at St. Joseph in Cockeysville for more than 20 years, is being remembered for his “generous, generous heart” and his devotion to his parish.

An 11 a.m. funeral Mass for Sister Jeanne Albrittain of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary will be offered Aug. 7 at Our Lady of Peace Residence in Dunmore, Pa. Sister Jeanne, formerly known as Sister Mary Anton, died July 23. She was 90.

The July 26 death of acclaimed Irish singer and songwriter Sinéad O’Connor, who was 56, has seen an outpouring of tributes from all walks of Irish life.

An 11 a.m. funeral Mass for Jesuit Father James F. Joyce, a former chaplain at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore from 2012 to 2016, will be offered July 27 at Fordham University Church in New York.