Remembering Rev. Richard J. Butler

This week, HEI/SBH lost a good friend and colleague in Rev. Richard J. Butler. HEI/SBH President Emeritus Nannette Canniff first met Butler when he taught her children in school, and they later met up again in Port-au-Prince, at Outreach for Haiti. In 1989, as pastor of Sacred Heart Parish in Lexington, Butler followed through on the parish’s partnership with the parish school in Fonds des Blanc, Haiti, and became a leader on more than 30 trips to Haiti in subsequent years.

“Not only was he a great priest of the diocese,” Canniff said, “but he was dedicated to helping the poor of Haiti. His compassion was apparent on his many visits.”

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