Russell Shaw Remembered as ‘Giant of the Church’

Russell Shaw, a veteran Catholic journalist who led communications for the U.S. bishops and Knights of Columbus and authored numerous articles and books, died Jan. 6 at the age of 90 in Silver Spring, Maryland. 

Friends and colleagues recalled the Washington native as a man of deep intelligence, keen insight and personal discipline whose prolific writing and communications work helped to shape the Catholic Church in the U.S. for more than a half-century.