OHIO
Toledo Blade

BY TK BARGER
BLADE RELIGION EDITOR

I heard many nice things about Bishop Robert W. Donnelly since his death July 21. “He was a regular fixture in the neighborhood,” Msgr. Michael Billian, the priest of his home parish, Most Blessed Sacrament, said. That was the neighborhood where he grew up and where he returned when he retired, living first in the rectory with his brother, the Rev. Martin Donnelly, who was Blessed Sacrament’s priest, and then in a house the Donnelly brothers bought. “Even at the end, when he was a little confused about life, it was everybody’s job in the neighborhood to keep an eye out, and they did a beautiful job of doing that.”

At Blessed Sacrament after he died the talk “was very loving, more than anything about his gentleness; when he celebrated the sacraments; when he visited with people,” Msgr. Billian…