Dawn Gibeau, longtime Catholic journalist, dies at age 67

Published: 2006-01-04

ST. PAUL, Minn. (CNS) -- Dawn Mignonne Gibeau, a longtime journalist in the Catholic press, died Dec. 29 at Our Lady of Good Counsel Cancer Home in St. Paul after a long battle with cancer. She was 67. Gibeau began her reporting career in 1961 at The Catholic Spirit, then called The Catholic Bulletin, archdiocesan newspaper of St. Paul and Minneapolis. She went on to cover Catholic news for National Catholic Reporter before returning to The Catholic Spirit in 2000 and retiring two years later. Bernard Casserly, the editor who gave Gibeau her first reporting job, said she was one of The Catholic Bulletin's top reporters, capable of handling the most sensitive stories. "She could tackle almost any job in the newspaper business," Casserly said. "She was a complete journalist, and a complete Catholic journalist. She was deeply involved with the church's changes that came with Vatican II" and reflected those changes "with the fair and balanced coverage that was badly needed in many Catholic papers."

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