'Xavier Rynne,' Vatican II chronicler, dies. (United States).Washington, DC--Redemptorist Father Francis X. Murphy, who wrote eyewitness eyewitness n. a person who has actually seen an event and can so testify in court. accounts of the opening session of the Second Vatican Council under the pseudonym pseudonym (s  `dənĭm) [Gr.,=false name], name assumed, particularly by writers, to conceal identity. A writer's pseudonym is also referred to as a nom de plume (pen name). 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 Lateran (lăt`ərən), name applied to a group of buildings of SE Rome facing the Piazza San Giovanni. They are on land once belonging to the Laterani; it was presented to the Church by Constantine. The Lateran basilica is the cathedral of Rome, the pope's church, the first-ranking church of the Roman Catholic Church. 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 Vatican City (văt`ĭkən), independent state (2005 est. pop. 900), 108.7 acres (44 hectares), within the city of Rome, Italy, and the residence of the pope, who is its absolute ruler. originally published in The New Yorker from 1962 to 1965. "Many in the Vatican were dismayed at the account, which blew open the council's discussions," said the London daily paper The Independent. The National Catholic Register (April 28) added: Father Murphy may be chiefly responsible for the misunderstanding of Vatican II in the United States, which was construed to be an open-season invitation to laxity laxity /lax·i·ty/ (lak´si-te) 1. slackness or looseness; a lack of tautness, firmness, or rigidity. 2. slackness or displacement in the motion of a joint.lax´ . Of Pope John Paul II, Fr. Murphy said, "To me he seems to be obsessed with sexual issues." So much for perspicacity.
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