April 2009
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Letters of Condolence
Richard John Neuhaus May 14, 1936“January 8, 2009 I am deeply touched by the death of the…
The Great Convivium
Cardinal Ratzinger said in his funeral homily for John Paul the Great: “This is not the time…
The One True Church
Richard John Neuhaus died on January 8, 2009, at the age of seventy-two—a great loss to the…
Talkin’ ‘bout My Generation
Richard John Neuhaus first came into my life at a seminar run by the Carnegie Council on…
Day by Day
Richard John Neuhaus had a big life, but his day-by-day world was a small one. There was…
First Things First
For his friends this is the kind of loss that tilts the world on its axis; for…
Richard’s Book Club
Some virtues may be learned, others are inborn. Punctuality, for example, can be taught, at least in…
To Light a Candle
I first came across the name of Richard John Neuhaus when he was writing religion columns for…
Evangelicals and Catholics Together
The sudden death of Fr. Neuhaus from recrudescent cancer hits us all hard. First Things itself, which…
We’re Gonna Turn This Around
Richard used to put up cartoons in his bathroom. One, which stayed there for some time, showed…
Fishers of Men
My memories of Fr. Richard go back to his beginning and before. He was the second son…
I Measure Every Grief I Meet
He was the greatest reader I ever met. The greatest reader, and a cigar smoker, and a…
The Gift of Lightheartedness
In what has become a winter of farewells for conservatives, the hardest loss was that of Fr.…
Neuhaus Invades Poland
Fr. Neuhaus had a missionary zeal, a fervor for argument and conversation in defense of the faith…
Religion, Culture, and Public Life
Richard John Neuhaus never seemed to lack for pithy, authoritative formulations. Neuhaus’ Law provides an obvious example:…
My Brother in Christ
I was out of the country when I received the news that Richard John Neuhaus had died,…
Here He Stood
A year after Richard John Neuhaus left Martin Luther’s Wittenberg for St. Peter’s Rome, he was interviewed…
Comrades in Arms
When I first came to spend my days in the office of the Institute on Religion and…
The Kingdoms of the World
American Babylon: Notes of a Christian Exile by Richard John Neuhaus Basic, 265 pages, $26.95 Near the…
Mediating Institutions
To Empower People: From State to Civil Society Twentieth Anniversary Edition by Richard John Neuhaus and Peter…
Ministering to Ministry
Freedom for Ministry by Richard John Neuhaus. Eerdmans, 272 pages, $26. Among his many books, Freedom for…
Opinion
The Naked Public Square: Religion and Democracy in America by Richard John Neuhaus Eerdmans, 292 pages, $28…
In Refusal of Politics
Sapphics for Richard John Neuhaus If I have seen geese low on the east horizon, seen the…
Bread Upon the Waters
The death of Richard John Neuhaus shocked and saddened me. I learned of it by calling to…
Evening Prayer
The Richard I knew and loved was a man of prayer and of liturgy. He knew that…
Vintage Richard
Over three decades ago, the phone rang in my office at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where…
The Areopagus of Morningside Heights
The stained-glass chancel windows at St. Paul’s Chapel on the Columbia campus form a triptych in which…
Pilgrimage to Fifth Avenue
On occasional pilgrimages to visit Richard John Neuhaus at the First Things office on Fifth Avenue, I…
My Personal Strunk and White
Growing up a Catholic boy in suburban South Jersey, I knew my share of priests. They were…
The Rockford Raid
Longtime First Things readers have heard, no doubt, about the “Rockford Raid.” How, on the morning of…
Canadian Summers
My first impression of Richard John Neuhaus was not positive. Soon after his ordination as a Catholic…
Richard and the Jews
In his youth in rural Ontario and rural Texas, Richard John Neuhaus had little or no contact…
Multiplying Himself
How to capture the essence of Richard John Neuhaus and his impact on others? Perhaps numbers help.…
