Born November 6, 1902 in Dorchester, Massachusetts, he was educated at St. Peter’s School. In 1916 he went to the Passionist Preparatory Seminary, Baltimore, Maryland. He professed his vows on September 20, 1921 and was ordained on June 2, 1928 by Bishop Thomas Walsh at the Newark Cathedral. After ordination he left for Rome to pursue a doctorate in theology which he obtained from the Angelicum in 1930. Upon his return he was a professor of dogmatic theology in the Passionist Seminary from 1930 until 1945. From 1945 until 1948 he was director of sacred eloquence in Baltimore, Maryland. He then took on editorship of the question and answer column “Sign Post” in Sign Magazine until 1959. He was also province prefect of studies from 1955 until 1965. After his term as Secretary of the Theological Society of America expired he was president from 1961 until 1963. He then became editor of the Passionist magazine Verbum Crucis. He wrote articles in a number of popular journals. For the last eighteen years of his life sickness was his companion. He died a member of the Jamaica, New York community.
Birth Date:
November 6, 1902
Profession Date:
September 20, 1921
Ordination Date:
June 2, 1928
Death Date:
July 22, 1967
Religious Name:
Aloysius of the Sacred Heart of Jesus McDonough