In Memoriam

Please pray for the eternal happiness of
 The Reverend Dom Paschal Scotti
Monk of Portsmouth Abbey
 who died on 15 January 2025
 in the 64th year of his age,
 the 40th of his monastic life
 and the 36th of priesthood.
 May he rest in peace.

FUNERAL MASS:
 Tuesday, JANUARY 21^st 2025 at 9:00 AM in the Abbey Church
 
 
"It is natural attraction of a man to the Supernatural and Transcendent"

Fr. Paschal Scotti graduated from Columbia University in 1983 with a degree in history and joined the monastery that summer. He earned an M.Div. from the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., and a degree (J.C.L.) in canon law from the Catholic University of America. Fr. Paschal taught in the History Department, the Humanities Department, and the Christian Doctrine Department (where he was chairman for many years), and recently taught just in the History Department in the School. He was also an assistant houseparent in St. Benet’s and St. Leonard’s for some years. Besides writing a number of articles and encyclopedia entries he published two books - Galileo Revisited: The Galileo Affair in Context (2017) and Out of Due Time: Wilfrid Ward and the Dublin Review (2006).