This just in from the Jesuits:

This morning, we received this announcement from the New York Province of the Society of Jesus:

“This is to inform you that Avery Cardinal Dulles died this morning at about 6:30 at Murray-Weigel Hall. Funeral arrangements will be announced shortly. May he rest in peace.” [Murray-Weigel Hall is the Jesuit infirmary, located at Fordham University, in Bronx, New York.]

Cardinal Dulles, the first American Jesuit ever to be named a cardinal, was widely considered to be the dean of American Catholic theologians.

America has posted an archive of his writings. I’m sure we’ll be hearing much more about his remarkable work, and enduring legacy, in the hours to come.

For more, you can read his Wikipedia biography right here, too.