Josephite who served in Texas, Louisiana, District of Columbia dies

Published: 2007-01-08

BALTIMORE (CNS) -- A funeral Mass was scheduled for Jan. 10 for Josephite Father Joseph L. Waters, who died Jan. 5 in Baltimore. He was 86. A native of Philadelphia, Father Waters served in Washington, New Orleans and the Galveston-Houston area during his nearly 63 years as a priest. He also earned a doctorate in canon law from The Catholic University of America in Washington, later teaching canon law and moral theology at the Josephites' St. Joseph Seminary in Washington. Within St. Joseph's Society of the Sacred Heart, which is the formal name for the Josephite Fathers and Brothers, Father Waters worked for many years on the revision of the society's constitution and served many times as an elected consultor to the superior general.

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