Article: 'Xavier Rynne,' Vatican II chronicler, dies. (United States).(Brief Article)(Obituary)

Washington, DC--Redemptorist Father Francis X. Murphy, who wrote eyewitness accounts of the opening session of the Second Vatican Council under the pseudonym Xavier Rynne, died April 11. For many years he did his best to keep his anonymity, though the fact that he was a professor of moral theology at the Lateran University in Rome, a theological adviser to the council, and a translator for the U.S. bishops made it clear to many Church insiders that he was behind the 13 letters from Vatican City originally published in The New ...

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