Vatican II’s secret priest-journalist: The story of Xavier Rynne americamagazine.org/arts-cul…

Vatican II’s secret priest-journalist: The story of Xavier Rynne

Much of the story of the Second Vatican Council was first told to Americans by Xavier Rynne in The New Yorker. But who was Rynne?

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"Xavier Rynne's" "Vatican Council II" is still in print @OrbisBooks. In reissuing this work in 1999 I asked the author, Redemptorist priest Francis X Murphy to write a new foreword in which he described how, by means of "assiduous casuistry" he maintained his anonymity.
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Asked point-blank by his superior if he was Xavier Rynne, he replied: "No Father, I am not Xavier Rynne. I am Francis Murphy."
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