Aug. 15 2003
 Rev. Charles R. McKenney, S.J., a longtime educator, caseworker
and pastoral minister, died Aug. 15 at the Campion Health
Center, Weston, Mass., at 88.
Interested in social work, Fr. McKenney earned a master’s
degree in the field in 1948, from Fordham University, following
studies at Boston College and Fordham. He then worked three
years as a caseworker for the Diocese of Brooklyn, N.Y.,
and served five years on the faculty of the School of Social
Service at Fordham.
Fr. McKenney taught sociology at Holy Cross from 1953-57.
He then went to the Philippines to teach and serve as the
director of social services at colleges in Manila and Zamboanga.
Returning to the United States in 1961, Fr. McKenney held
the post of chaplain at Worcester State Hospital for 16
years. He later worked in pastoral ministry at several parishes
in the Archdiocese of Boston and returned to Holy Cross
in
1990 to serve 12 years as a pastoral minister in the Worcester
diocese.
Fr. McKenney entered the Society of Jesus in Lenox, Mass.,
in 1934, after attending Boston College for two years;
he completed three years of ascetical and liberal arts
studies
there. Fr. McKenney then studied philosophy at Weston
College from 1937-40, earning bachelor of arts, master of
arts
and Ph.L. degrees. After teaching mathematics for one
year at
Boston College High School, he returned to Weston for
theological studies.
Ordained to the priesthood in 1944, Fr. McKenney completed
his theological studies at Weston in 1945, earning
a licentiate in sacred theology. He spent the following
year pursuing
a program of advanced ascetical theology and pastoral
work in Auriesville, N.Y.
Fr. McKenney is survived by several cousins.
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