Rev. Robert T. Kennedy

In 1995 when I was President of the National Association of Catholic Chaplains we gave Father Kennedy the Most Prestigious Colleague Award for his decades-long work in defining and interpreting the canonical understanding of the title chaplain as it was used for lay chaplains. His acceptance speech was one of the most eloquent and inspirational talks I ever heard. He spoke for 35 minutes without a note and included a lengthy soliloquy from Hamlet. A brilliant, passionate and pastoral...

Fr. Kennedy was my canon law professor at Catholic University of America in Washington, DC in the early 1990s. He was an accomplished canonist who served the Catholic Church well, and he was admired by all of his students for his knowledge, teaching skills, and fine sense of humor. God rest him.

Fr. John Mahoney, JCL
Diocese of Manchester, NH