Obituary of Father Clement Cardillo

Father Clement Cardillo, SDB - Father Clement Cardillo, SDB, died at St. Catherine of Siena Nursing Home in Caldwell, N.J., at about 2:30 p.m. on November 22, 2011 at 86 years of age. Father Cardillo was the son of Anthony and Beatrice Pietro Cardillo and was born in Port Chester, N.Y., on June 20, 1925. He graduated from Don Bosco Seminary in Newton, N.J. in June 1943. He entered St. Joseph's Novitiate in Newton in September and professed first vows on September 8, 1944. From 1951 to 1954 Brother Clem studied theology at St. Anselm's Institute in Bollengo, Italy. He was ordained in the Basilica of Mary Help of Christians in Turin on July 1, 1954. In 1965 Father Cardillo was named pastor of St. Anthony's Church in Paterson, N.J., where he served until 1980. While he was pastor he continued his psychology studies at Boston College and Columbia University, earning a doctorate from B.C. in 1972. Licensed as a psychologist in New Jersey, he directed his practice primarily toward priests and religious. In 1980 Bishop Lawrence Casey of Paterson appointed him co-director of the diocese's Consultation Service Center, where he worked for 28 years. He continued in private practice, counseling both r