Deacon Don Zirkel RIP 1/23/2023

 https://thetablet.org/deacon-donald-zirkel-former-editor-of-the-tablet-dies-at-95/

Don Zirkel, Bay Shore Alum, passed away in January, 2023.  He was in the same class as Montfort Priests Gene Lynch, Pat Gaffney, Eddie McCarthy, Willie Vigliotta, Francis Crimmins and Deacon John McLeod. He left the community after novitiate year in Nicolet, Canada.  I believe they were the last group of Americans to do novitiate there.  No doubt they had an interesting and joyful reunion.

Deacon Don Zirkel with his wife, Marie, after his ordination in 1979. A vocal critic of the Vietnam War, Zirkel penned a joint editorial on Jan. 19, 1973, with six other Catholic newspapers across the U.S. protesting the morality of the conflict.