Submitted by: Dan Rich

Rev. Charles E. Sheedy CSC

July 1, 1912 – Apr. 15, 1990

South Bend Tribune 4/16/1990

Services for Rev. Charles E. Sheedy CSC, 77, who retired in 1968 as Dean of the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame, will be at 3:30 p.m. Thursday in Moreau Seminary Chapel. He died Saturday at St. Joseph Medical Center. Burial will be in Holy Cross Community Cemetery on the campus. Friends may call after 3:30 p.m. Wednesday in the chapel, where a wake service will be at 7:30 p.m.

Rev. Sheedy was born July 1, 1912 in Pittsburgh. He received an undergraduate degree in 1933 from Notre Dame and a law degree from the University of Pittsburgh. He joined the Congregation of Holy Cross and made his first profession Feb. 2, 1938, and he was ordained to the priesthood June 24, 1942. He became a professor of moral theology in 1942 and received a doctorate in theology in 1947 from Catholic University of America. In 1950 he published a book “The Christian Virtues” which became a popular textbook on Catholic college campuses. Also in 1950 he became chairman of the department of religion, succeeding Rev. Theodore Hesburgh.

In 1952 he was named dean of the College of Arts and Letters, and from 1968 to 1971 he served as deano of theological studies and institutes at the university. In 1968 a $1,000 annual award for excellence in teaching was established in his name. He also served as a research scholar in Ecumenical Institute of Tantur, Isreal. He returned to Notre Dame in 1972 and served on the staff of Moreau Seminary and taught moral theology in the Master of Divinity program. After his retirement from teaching in 1979, he served on the staff of Holy Cross novitiate in Cascade, Colo.; Holy Cross Center in Berkeley, Calif. in 1982; and Corby Hall at Notre Dame from 1985 until his retirement in 1989.