{"id":3939,"date":"2008-03-20T00:12:32","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T00:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3939"},"modified":"2025-09-30T01:24:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:24:18","slug":"fr-eugene-keane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3939","title":{"rendered":"Fr. Eugene Keane"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just got an email that this priest had died. I knew him a little, and then Brigid and I had some very pleasant contact with him. Tim and his birth mother stayed in his home (it was below Kingston, NY) before Tim was born. I doubt if we had seen Fr. at all in the last eight or so years. <\/p>\n

Here’s the text of the email informing us. It’s from another father whose adopted son was helped by him:<\/p>\n

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I just learned that Fr. Eugene Keane died on February 25. A witty,
eccentric & dedicated priest, he was already fighting abortion in the
mid-sixties &, among other things ran a home for unwed mothers – where our
Joseph’s stayed until his birth – & to which Governor Cuomo offered the 5
grand honororium from Notre Dame when the Governor made his Pontius Pilate
speech there in 1984 – but Keane turned it down.
So a prayer for this good priest’s soul this weekend, & perhaps a Mass at
some point, I commend to your consideration.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I confess to shedding a couple of tears while posting this …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just got an email that this priest had died. I knew him a little, and then Brigid and I had some very pleasant contact with him. Tim and his birth mother stayed in his home (it was below Kingston, NY) before Tim was born. I doubt if we had seen Fr. at all in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6624,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939\/revisions\/6624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}