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, 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, 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 ...

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, 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 ...

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 ...