CSF June 2023: Local News 5

Father Kieran James McCormick died on May 4, after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease.

Father McCormick was born in Great Falls, Montana, on June 17, 1938. He was one of three children and raised in San Mateo in St. Matthew’s Catholic parish.

Father McCormick entered St. Patrick’s Seminary School in Menlo Park at the age of 14 and was ordained a priest in 1964. He first served at St. Thomas More in San Francisco, then in various parishes in the San Francisco diocese including St. Monica, St. Gabriel, Holy Angels, St. James, St. Timothy and St. Charles.

Father McCormick selflessly served people with compassion and kindness, inspiring those around him to do the same. Known for his warmth, wit and down-to-earth nature, friends related that he was a “people’s priest.” ■