Comments on: Ralph McInerny, RIP http://www.theamericanconservative.com/mccarthy/2010/02/03/ralph-mcinerny-rip/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ralph-mcinerny-rip www.ToryAnarchist.com Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:59:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: R J Stove http://www.theamericanconservative.com/mccarthy/2010/02/03/ralph-mcinerny-rip/comment-page-1/#comment-1838 R J Stove Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:06:17 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/mccarthy/?p=1671#comment-1838 My impression is that Professor McInerny's passing has received a fair amount of coverage in the religious media, and more especially the Catholic media. It was thus that I, at any rate, learned of his sad demise. I have happy childhood memories of the "Father Dowling" television series, though I can't claim any competence whatever when it comes to a knowledge of the Professor's scholarly works. With his death, I suppose, there has been taken from us the last of the theologians who can appeal <I>both</I> to intellectuals with doctorates <I>and</I> to us working stiffs sitting in the pews. Chesterton could (his warmest admirers included the scholar Etienne Gilson); Ronald Knox could; Sir Arnold Lunn could; Bishop Fulton Sheen could; and, among conservative Anglicans, C. S. Lewis could. Who can now? My impression is that Professor McInerny’s passing has received a fair amount of coverage in the religious media, and more especially the Catholic media. It was thus that I, at any rate, learned of his sad demise. I have happy childhood memories of the “Father Dowling” television series, though I can’t claim any competence whatever when it comes to a knowledge of the Professor’s scholarly works.

With his death, I suppose, there has been taken from us the last of the theologians who can appeal both to intellectuals with doctorates and to us working stiffs sitting in the pews. Chesterton could (his warmest admirers included the scholar Etienne Gilson); Ronald Knox could; Sir Arnold Lunn could; Bishop Fulton Sheen could; and, among conservative Anglicans, C. S. Lewis could. Who can now?

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