“Carol’s work was grounded in relationships,” Puls said. “It was all about relationships.”

Sulpician Father John Kemper, the driving force behind the restoration of the historic St. Mary’s Seminary Chapel on Paca Street in Baltimore and a former superior for his religious society’s Province of the United States, died May 21 after an 18-month battle with esophageal cancer.

The Jesuit General Curia in Rome announced that its former superior general, Father Adolfo Nicolas, died May 20 in Tokyo. He was 84.

While most of her ministry was spent in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Sister Patricia also served St. Bernadette Parish in Severn from 1982 to 1987.

The winningest coach in the history of the National Football League started that career in Baltimore.

Ray Repp, the liturgical musician who spearheaded the concept of the folk group-led “guitar Mass” with his “Mass for Young Americans,” died April 26 in Palm Springs, California, of complications from cancer. He was 77.

Father G. Richard “Dick” Dimler, a former professor of German literature at what is now Loyola University Maryland and an expert on Jesuit emblems, died April 14. He was 88.

Jesuit Father Francis X. Moan, a Baltimore native who eventually became a headmaster at his alma mater, Loyola Blakefield, and later tirelessly worked to improve the lives of refugees in America, died April 17 from complications of COVID-19, his family said. He was 93.

A funeral Mass was offered April 6 in the Daughters’ Villa St. Michael Chapel in Emmitsburg for Sister Mary Gerald McCloskey. A Baltimore native who spent 56 of her 66 years as a Daughter of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, including as a missioner in Bolivia, Sister Mary Gerald died April 1, at age 85.

A funeral Mass was offered April 4 in the Daughters’ Villa St. Michael Chapel in Emmitsburg for Sister Maria Cincotta, a Daughter of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul who died March 31. She was 88.