From Our Sunday Visitor:
A diocesan priest in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was found dead Nov. 26, having apparently taken his own life. Archbishop Thomas R. Zinkula of Dubuque released a message Nov. 27 stating “with a heavy heart” that Father Dennis Conway, pastor of Immaculate Conception Parish in Cedar Rapids, had died in the rectory “by way of suicide.”
“Based on correspondence near the time of his death, Fr. Dennis clearly was suffering from an acute mental health crisis,” said Archbishop Zinkula in his message. Born in Alabama, Father Conway grew up in Cedar Rapids at All Saints Parish and graduated from Xavier High School. He spent one year at Marquette University in Milwaukee before enrolling in St. Pius X Seminary at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa.