Sister Mary Ann Walsh, Catholic journalist and longtime bishops’ spokeswoman, dies at 68

(RNS) Sister Mary Ann Walsh was director of media relations for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Religion News Service file photo courtesy of U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops

David Gibson | April 28, 2015

NEW YORK (RNS) Sister Mary Ann Walsh, a quiet nun with a keen wit who led a very public life as a journalist and a longtime spokeswoman for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, died on Tuesday (April 28) after a tough battle with cancer.

She was 68 and passed away in a hospice in Albany next to the regional convent of the religious order she entered as a 17-year-old novice in 1964.

Walsh had moved to her native Albany from Washington last September after it was discovered that the cancer that had been in remission since 2010 had returned.

She was able to receive better care there and live out her days with other members of the Sisters of Mercy. She was transferred to the hospice on April 23 as her condition deteriorated.

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