Nora McInerny Purmort, author of "It's OK to Laugh (Crying is Cool Too)," plays with her son Ralph, 3, at her home on Monday, May 16, 2016. (Pioneer Press: Scott Takushi) On a cool May afternoon ...

In McInerny Purmort's suburban Minneapolis-area home, where she lives with 3-year-old, cherub-cheeked Ralph, a wall is covered with drawings and paintings meaningful to her and to her late husband ...

Ralph McInerny, a longtime professor of philosophy and medieval studies at the University of Notre Dame who also was a popular mystery writer best known for his Father Dowling series of novels ...

Ralph McInerny, a scholar of Roman Catholicism who taught at the University of Notre Dame for more than half a century and a prolific novelist whose books included the Father Dowling mystery ...

At 31, Nora McInerny was happily married to a man she loved, with a toddler named Ralph, a nice home in Minneapolis and a career in advertising. But within six brutal weeks of 2014, she miscarried ...

The death of University of Notre Dame professor and author Ralph McInerny left a gaping hole in the American Catholic intellectual scene. SOUTH BEND, Ind. — All Ralph McInerny ever wanted to do ...

Ralph McInerny, who has died aged 80, was an American medievalist with a successful sideline writing mystery novels featuring the priest-detective Father Dowling. 18 February 2010 • 6:22pm ...

Nora McInerny writes about our culture of oppressive ... now live in Phoenix with his two children from a previous marriage, her son Ralph, now 9, and their 5-year-old son, whom they call Q.

Fans of McInerny's Father Dowling novels (Ash Wednesday, etc.) will welcome this collection of 15 short stories featuring the compassionate priest of St. Hilary's church in Fox River, Ill., ...

Ralph McInerny, distinguished philosopher, professor at the University of Notre Dame and author of nearly 30 philosophical books, 66 novels and seven books of a theological or spiritual nature ...

Nora McInerny's first husband died from brain cancer. While still grieving him, she fell in love again.March 30, 2018 ...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — All Ralph McInerny ever wanted to do was tell stories. But when the University of Notre Dame professor of philosophy died Friday, Jan. 29, at age 80, he had done more than he ...