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 Thu Jul 29, 2004 10:21 am Monsignor instrumental in growth of St. Ann's in Coppell |
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| Quote: | Monsignor instrumental in growth of St. Ann in Coppell
12:02 AM CDT on Thursday, July 29, 2004
Monsignor Kilian Broderick was happiest building things, whether it was tinkering with old furniture, nurturing faith in God through powerful homilies or growing a small mission into a thriving church.
Monsignor Broderick, 64, the founding pastor of St. Ann Catholic Parish of Coppell, died unexpectedly Tuesday at Medical Center of Lewisville a week after liver cancer was diagnosed, relatives said.
Monsignor Broderick shepherded the growth of St. Ann from a mission of fewer than 100 members in 1986 to more than 16,000 in 2001, when the parish moved into a new $14 million church.
Sister Ruth Ellen, who worked with Monsignor Broderick for 12 years at St. Ann, said his contribution to the Catholic community is immeasurable.
"He was a fantastic homilist, he had a real gift for helping people to find God," she said. "He was a visionary ... who empowered the people."
A reception of his body to St. Ann at 180 Samuel Blvd. begins today at 1 p.m., with visitation continuing through the weekend at St. Kilian's Chapel.
A vigil service begins at 7 p.m. Monday; a burial Mass starts at 1 p.m. Tuesday with interment to follow at Calvary Hill Cemetery in Dallas.
He was born in Chicago on June 29, 1940, and he attended Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary in Chicago and entered the Dominican Order of Preachers in 1960.
He received a bachelor's degree from the Thomas Aquinas Institute in River Forest, Ill., and a master's degree in philosophy. He was ordained in 1967.
He received a law degree from the University of Houston in 1973 and provided legal counsel for Dallas Catholic Charities before he was named executive director in 1979.
In 1986, he was incardinated in the Dallas Diocese, where he served on the clergy personnel board and the presbyterial council, and received the title of monsignor in August 1995.
About 20 members of Monsignor Broderick's family from the Chicago area gathered at the rectory Wednesday to celebrate his life, said his sister, Sharon Devero of Palatine, Ill.
"All of his nieces and nephews adored him. He was the first to start charades" and other parlor games on Christmas Eve, she said. "He wanted to be a real part of the family even though he didn't live near us."
He also enjoyed fishing in Matagorda Bay and reading in English, Spanish, Greek and Latin, she said.
Monsignor Broderick served as executive director of Dallas Catholic Charities for 18 years before resigning in 1997 to focus on his rapidly expanding parish, Ms. Devero said.
The next year he was called to testify in the 1998 trial of former priest Rudolph "Rudy" Kos, who was convicted of child molestation. Monsignor Broderick, noted by his peers for his sometimes brutal honesty, told prosecutors that Mr. Kos had disclosed to him his sexual contacts with a boy.
In addition to Ms. Devero, Monsignor Broderick is survived by his twin sister, Jean McCabe, of Lake Barrington, Ill., and his brother, Maurice Broderick, of Crestwood, Ill. Memorials may be made to Catholic Charities, P.O. Box 190507, Dallas, Texas, 75219.
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 He was the preist at our church for over 15 years, 11 of which I have been there. He was an amazingly inspiring preist. He built our whole church from when it was just 12 families to now, where we have a facility to seat 5000, and on Sunday there are still people standing. I wish I had had more of a chance to talk with him personally. Besides giving spectacular homilies, he was the most intelligent person I have ever seen. I and the rest of my church will miss him greatly. If you are at all religous, I ask you to keep him and his family in your prayers. The worst thing to me is that this was so unexpected, to be honest, he gave me the only motivation I have to go to church. It is going to be hard not seeing him there anymore.
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