Born in Atlanta, Georgia on August 22, 1887, Joseph Morris attended Marist College in Atlanta and St. Mary's College in Belmont, North Carolina, before entering the Paulists in 1909. He made his Paulist profession on December 15, 1914 and was ordained with classmate Peter Hoey on May 29th of the following year.
After brief assignments to parish work in New York and Austin, Fr. Morris entered the U.S. Army Chaplain Corps, serving with American troops in France and Germany during World War I. After returning to the Society in 1919, he became a curate at the parish of St. Paul the Apostle in New York, and in 1925 was named Superior of Good Shepherd parish in Winchester, Tennessee.
Conducting lay retreats and helping to construct new churches in Murfreesboro and South Pittsburg, he gained a reputation in the late 1920's as a parish builder. The remaining years of his priesthood were spent as an assistant in Paulist parishes in Chicago and New York.
While attending a baseball game at Yankee Stadium in the summer of 1958, he suffered a fatal heart attack and died. A respected parish leader, he was remembered as a "faithful, quiet, steady worker at the Paulist apostolate, solidly religious, benign and cheerful in community life." At the time of his death he was four days past his 71st birthday and been a Paulist priest for 43 years.
After brief assignments to parish work in New York and Austin, Fr. Morris entered the U.S. Army Chaplain Corps, serving with American troops in France and Germany during World War I. After returning to the Society in 1919, he became a curate at the parish of St. Paul the Apostle in New York, and in 1925 was named Superior of Good Shepherd parish in Winchester, Tennessee.
Conducting lay retreats and helping to construct new churches in Murfreesboro and South Pittsburg, he gained a reputation in the late 1920's as a parish builder. The remaining years of his priesthood were spent as an assistant in Paulist parishes in Chicago and New York.
While attending a baseball game at Yankee Stadium in the summer of 1958, he suffered a fatal heart attack and died. A respected parish leader, he was remembered as a "faithful, quiet, steady worker at the Paulist apostolate, solidly religious, benign and cheerful in community life." At the time of his death he was four days past his 71st birthday and been a Paulist priest for 43 years.
Born in Atlanta, Georgia on August 22, 1887, Joseph Morris attended Marist College in Atlanta and St. Mary's College in Belmont, North Carolina, before entering the Paulists in 1909. He made his Paulist profession on December 15, 1914 and was ordained with classmate Peter Hoey on May 29th of the following year.
After brief assignments to parish work in New York and Austin, Fr. Morris entered the U.S. Army Chaplain Corps, serving with American troops in France and Germany during World War I. After returning to the Society in 1919, he became a curate at the parish of St. Paul the Apostle in New York, and in 1925 was named Superior of Good Shepherd parish in Winchester, Tennessee.
Conducting lay retreats and helping to construct new churches in Murfreesboro and South Pittsburg, he gained a reputation in the late 1920's as a parish builder. The remaining years of his priesthood were spent as an assistant in Paulist parishes in Chicago and New York.
While attending a baseball game at Yankee Stadium in the summer of 1958, he suffered a fatal heart attack and died. A respected parish leader, he was remembered as a "faithful, quiet, steady worker at the Paulist apostolate, solidly religious, benign and cheerful in community life." At the time of his death he was four days past his 71st birthday and been a Paulist priest for 43 years.
After brief assignments to parish work in New York and Austin, Fr. Morris entered the U.S. Army Chaplain Corps, serving with American troops in France and Germany during World War I. After returning to the Society in 1919, he became a curate at the parish of St. Paul the Apostle in New York, and in 1925 was named Superior of Good Shepherd parish in Winchester, Tennessee.
Conducting lay retreats and helping to construct new churches in Murfreesboro and South Pittsburg, he gained a reputation in the late 1920's as a parish builder. The remaining years of his priesthood were spent as an assistant in Paulist parishes in Chicago and New York.
While attending a baseball game at Yankee Stadium in the summer of 1958, he suffered a fatal heart attack and died. A respected parish leader, he was remembered as a "faithful, quiet, steady worker at the Paulist apostolate, solidly religious, benign and cheerful in community life." At the time of his death he was four days past his 71st birthday and been a Paulist priest for 43 years.
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