Louis Weichmann

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Somewhere, I have read both Townsend's article and Weichmann's response to it. When I am not overwhelmed with work that I get paid for, I will try to track them down. You should be receiving Fr. Alfred's paper any day now because your order was processed at the end of last week.

Please don't take Msgr. Conroy's blasting of Weichmann (based on what he had heard from Mulcahey) as what Fr. Alfred will say also. I have had the good fortune of knowing both Fr. Isacsson and Erich Ewald (had a nice conversation with him last week, and he sent me his last article on Weichmann in the 1990s). Both men were/are very respectful of their positions and of the Church and state what their research found in a professional manner.

What burr got under the saddle of Mulcahey and Conroy, I have no idea. Too bad you can't trace a factual trail back to Mulcahey's relationship with Weichmann. Conroy was just repeating what he had heard from Mulcahey -- and it just so happened to come out at the time that Helen Jones Campbell was "re-introducing" the case for Mary Surratt to the general public once again with her fictionalized history. I suspect that the Church was closing ranks again to protect the name of Mary Surratt - and her son - against suspected blasphemy?