U.S. Cardinal William J. Levada, former head of the Vatican's doctrinal congregation and retired archbishop of San Francisco and Portland, Oregon, died Sept. 26 in Rome. He was 83.

Noted broadcast journalist and author Cokie Roberts was remembered as a Washington icon, a national treasure and a woman devoted to her family and her faith as luminaries from the worlds of media and politics joined friends and admirers at her funeral Mass Sept. 21.

The passing of Cokie Roberts elicited grief from politicians, journalists and news organizations on social media.

Theologian and Jesuit priest Michael Buckley, S.J., died last week in Los Gatos, Calif.

Serving as head of the Archdiocese of Havana for almost 35 years pushed the cardinal into a prominent role as a spokesman for Cuban Catholics on national and international issues.

Callahan was an independent scholar working at the frontier where ethics meets medicine, law and religion.