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American Catholic History

Father Mulcahy, M*A*S*H

American Catholic History

Noelle & Tom Crowe

History, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Education

5 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Father Mulcahy, Army chaplain of the M*A*S*H 4077, was perhaps the most important priest on network television not named Fulton Sheen. He was a fictional character, and the actor who played him, William Christopher, was Methodist. But Father Mulcahy was an integral part of what made M*A*S*H one of the best television series of all time. He was a humble, real man, with his own struggles with pride, but who managed to be a steady and humanizing presence in that TV depiction of hell on earth.

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Today we're talking about Father Francis John Patrick Mulcahy, who was perhaps the most important

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priest ever on network

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television, not named Fulton Sheen.

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But of course, Father Mulcahy has one big difference from venerable Fulton Sheen.

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Father Mulcahy was not a real person.

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No, he was a character on the War Drama television series, MASH.

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MASH ran for 11 seasons, 256 episodes from 1972 through 1983, and is widely considered

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one of the best, if not the best, television series ever produced.

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