'Xavier Rynne,' Vatican II chronicler, dies. (United States).Washington, DC--Redemptorist Father Francis X. Murphy, who wrote eyewitness accounts of the opening session of the Second Vatican Council Noun 1. Second Vatican Council - the Vatican Council in 1962-1965 that abandoned the universal Latin liturgy and acknowledged ecumenism and made other reforms Vatican II Vatican Council - each of two councils of the Roman Catholic Church 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 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 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´ laxity looseness. . Of Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II (Latin: Ioannes Paulus PP. II, Italian: Giovanni Paolo II, Polish: Jan Paweł II) born Karol Józef Wojtyła , Fr. Murphy said, "To me he seems to be obsessed ob·sess v. ob·sessed, ob·sess·ing, ob·sess·es v.tr. To preoccupy the mind of excessively. v.intr. with sexual issues." So much for perspicacity. |
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