America's Largest Catholic Newspaper
Father George C. McCauley, S.J., a writer and editor and a teacher at Fordham University, died Sept. 6 at Montefiore Medical Center’s North Division in the Bronx. He was 79.
At Fordham he taught theology and religion, 1985-1987 and 1983-1984, and religious education, 1971-1983.
He was a regular columnist for America, the Jesuit weekly magazine, and wrote the “Word of God” column, 1982-1983. He was the editor of Medical Mission News, published by the Catholic Medical Mission Board, 1995-1998. Since 1995 he had been editor of “SJ New York,” the newsletter of the Jesuits’ New York Province. In recent years he also was the publisher of Something More Publications, a publishing and printing organization.
Earlier he taught theology, Latin and Greek at St. Peter’s College in Jersey City, N.J. In 1985 he served as an assistant at the Pastoral Institute in Ibadan, Nigeria.
Since 1995 he had resided at Loyola Hall on the Fordham campus.
Born in New York City, he entered the Jesuits in Poughkeepsie in 1948 and professed vows in 1950. He studied at Bellarmine College in Plattsburgh and Woodstock College in Manhattan, and was ordained at Fordham University Church in 1961. He earned a doctorate in religious science at the University of Strasbourg in France.
A Funeral Mass was celebrated Sept. 11 at Fordham University Church. Burial was at the Jesuit Cemetery in Auriesvillle.
