Fr Iscara taught me at Holy Cross Seminary in 1989. After only one year he was posted to the US seminary. I always understood he was a history professor before entering the seminary, but perhaps it was simply meant that he was history professor in the Argentine seminary before coming to Australia. In 1990 when I was on pilgrimage I bumped into him very unexpectedly at the Society house in Albano. One hilarious incident that sticks in my mind is when he came out of the chapel after the Easter Vigil. We always had a little celebration in the dining hall after midnight Mass. He started running towards the refectory, half joking (but only half) calling out "meat, meat". It was a big thing for a South American to give up meat for all of Lent! He was always happy, a very jovial, likable priest. I am glad to hear he received the Last Rites. May he rest in peace and pray for us poor wayfarers.

Thank you all who let us know more @ Fr. Iscara. Eternal rest grant unto him O Lord, and perpetual light shine upon him, and may the soul of Fr. Iscara and the souls of all the faithfully departed rest in peace. 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/fr-juan-carlos-iscara-3360118a

From the above link, it would appear that he was probably born around 1950 and did indeed lecture in history at the University of Buenos Aires for a couple of years. God rest his soul.

One of his former seminarians just reminded me that he spent three days in jail in Mexico for refusing to take the cassock off when entering the country. That would have been at the start of his appointment as District Superior in the early 90s.

I recall listening to Father Iscara's lecture on the demonic enlightenment theories of Jean Jacques Rousseau.  What an eye opener.







Here's a link to the lecture in case you want to sample or buy it:

J.J. Rousseau - Part I (Rev. Fr. Juan-Carlos Iscara)

Thank you for this link Incredulous

Bishop Williamson wrote back to my e-mail; he said he offered Mass for the soul of Fr. Iscara this morning.