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“A Reluctant Prophet” – Three Decades After Seattle “Wars,” “Dutch” Hunthausen Dies at 96

Yet again, it is the end of an era in the Stateside Church: on Sunday afternoon, Raymond Gerhardt Hunthausen – the US’ last living Father of Vatican II, whose controversial tenure as archbishop of Seattle prefigured the hope and the strains of Francis-era Catholicism – died surrounded by his large, tight-knit family in his native Helena, a month short of his 97th birthday.Named bishop of the Montana church at 41 on the eve of the Council, by all accounts its four sessions saw Hunthausen undergo a “conversion experience.” By the time he was sent to the Northwest’s top post as

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