RIP Anti-Catholic Boxer Turned Late Vocation Priest: Father Stu Long

California Catholic Daily: A Memorial Mass is scheduled August 30, 10:00 a.m. at Holy Angels in Arcadia for Father Stuart Long, 50, who died June 9 in Helena, Montana after a long illness. Father Stu joined Holy Angels through the RCIA and was a longtime parishioner there before becoming a priest.

Father Stu felt a call to the priesthood as he was baptized in 1994 at Holy Angels by Monsignor Norm Priebe, and decided to teach religion at Bishop Alemany High School in Mission Hills for three years before entering the seminary. Father Stu also coached wrestling. Read more here.