Msgr. Robert Paul Mohan dies; was CUA philosophy professor since 1951

Published: 2007-01-29

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Msgr. Robert Paul Mohan, who taught philosophy at The Catholic University of America for more than 50 years, died Jan. 26 at Providence Hospital in Washington. He was 86. A funeral Mass was to be celebrated Jan. 31 in the Crypt Church of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, followed by interment at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Silver Spring, Md. Vincentian Father David M. O'Connell, president of the university, called Msgr. Mohan "an extraordinary professor and scholar" who left his imprint on generations of students. Born Oct. 25, 1920, in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Robert Paul Mohan was ordained a priest of the Washington Archdiocese June 11, 1946. While a seminarian at Catholic University he earned bachelor's and master's degrees in philosophy, and he completed his doctorate there the year after his ordination. After a year of additional graduate studies at the Sorbonne in Paris, he joined the Sulpicians, a society of diocesan priests dedicated to teaching seminarians.

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