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Professor Ralph McInerny who was the Michael P. Grace Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Notre Dame, died this morning. The story is posted on First Things by Thomas S. Hibbs and on First Thoughts by Joseph Bottum . Requiescat in Pace!

Joseph Bottum of the Catholic Magazine, First Things , reminds us that he will be in Washington, D.C. on March 17th, 2008 : [...] On Monday, March 17, at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Called “Living with the Dead: Why Cities Need Cemeteries and Nations Need Memorials,” it’s at 7:00 pm in the ICC auditorium . Cosponsored by the Tocqueville Forum at Georgetown and National Civic Art Society , the lecture is a specific application to civil architecture and urban design of the work I did in “ Death & Politics ,” the long essay on the centrality of grief to political theory that appeared this summer in First Things . The respondents will be National Endowment for the Arts chairman Dana Gioia, the New Criterion ’s Roger Kimball, and the architectural historian Denis McNamara. A reception will follow the lecture, I’m told. The events is open to the public, and no RSVP is needed, although you might drop them an email to say you’re coming, so they can get a rough count for t