were among the NCWC's most vigorous defenders. After the American hierarchy sent a delegation headed by Shrembs to Rome, the Vatican agreed to restore the approbation providing, among other things, that the organization be renamed the National Catholic Welfare Conference. Peter Muldoon died in Rockford on October 8, 1927, after a long illness. Notes 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the United States Roman Catholic bishops of Rockford People from Columbia, California 1862 births 1927 deaths St. Mary's College (Kentucky) alumni St. Mary's Seminary and University alumni Catholics from California