Patrick Francis Murray (9 April 1931 – 6 August 1983) was a New Zealand Catholic priest, editor and ecumenicist.
[1] In 1962, Murray was appointed assistant editor of Zealandia, the Catholic weekly newspaper owned by the Bishop of Auckland, James Liston.
Liston had become increasingly dissatisfied with the editorial line taken by the previous editor, Father Ernest Simmons, and dismissed him.
Murray was appointed to replace Simmons but continued the same editorial approach, which was highly favourable to the reforms of the Second Vatican Council but also included liberal comments on contraception.
[1] Murray was parish priest of Te Awamutu in the Diocese of Hamilton when he died suddenly at his presbytery on 6 August 1983 at the age of 52.