Created: 5/13/2009 10:42:39 PM 
TALLAHASSEE, FL -- Monsignor William Kerr, a leading human rights figure and Catholic educator, died Wednesday. He was 69. Kerr was hospitalized May 3 after suffering a stroke as he concluded celebrating a Mass. Florida State University officials announced his death. His career took him from a parish priest in his St. Louis hometown to the presidency of La Roche College in Pittsburgh, vice president of Catholic University and executive director of the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center in Washington, D.C. Kerr spent many years here after being assigned to the Catholic Student Center at Florida State University in 1971. He returned to Tallahassee in 2006 as executive director of the Claude Pepper Center for International Dialogue.
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