Francis X. Murphy

Francis Xavier Murphy ( born 1915, † 11 April 2002) was a priest in the Roman Catholic Order of Redemptorists and professor of church history.

Life

Murphy was ordained a priest in 1940. In training he acquired in 1945 several Masters degrees at the Catholic University of America with the Scriptures " Rufinus of Aquileia ( 345-411 ): His Life and Works". He was a chaplain in Annapolis, Maryland and after the 2nd World War military chaplain in the U.S. Army. 1959 Murphy was professor of moral theology at the Pontifical Lateran University. He was known especially for his published during the Second Vatican Council in the New York Times reports from the Council Hall, for which he the pseudonym Xavier Rynne helped himself and the council broke mystery.