{"id":7247,"date":"2009-01-08T10:34:39","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T15:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theanchoressonline.com\/?p=7247"},"modified":"2017-03-15T23:15:22","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T23:15:22","slug":"richard-john-neuhaus-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theanchoress\/2009\/01\/08\/richard-john-neuhaus-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard John Neuhaus, RIP – UPDATED"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>


\nRichard John Neuhaus, 1936-2009<\/em><\/p>\n

First Things announces his death<\/strong> and reprints an old, relevant, and quite brilliant piece of his<\/a>, on the subject of death.<\/p>\n

\nIt was a couple of days after leaving intensive care, and it was night. I could hear patients in adjoining rooms moaning and mumbling and occasionally calling out; the surrounding medical machines were pumping and sucking and bleeping as usual. Then, all of a sudden, I was jerked into an utterly lucid state of awareness. I was sitting up in the bed staring intently into the darkness, although in fact I knew my body was lying flat. What I was staring at was a color like blue and purple, and vaguely in the form of hanging drapery. By the drapery were two \u201cpresences.\u201d I saw them and yet did not see them, and I cannot explain that. But they were there, and I knew that I was not tied to the bed. I was able and prepared to get up and go somewhere. And then the presences-one or both of them, I do not know-spoke. This I heard clearly. Not in an ordinary way, for I cannot remember anything about the voice. But the message was beyond mistaking: \u201cEverything is ready now.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Do read it. It is deep, open, thoughtful, funny moving and wise. Typically<\/em>, so.<\/p>\n


\nOne of those deaths<\/strong> where there is so much to say, but nothing is coming to my mind beyond the hope I\u2019ve always had of someday \u201cgrowing up\u201d in my adult faith like Neuhaus \u2013 because he was a grown-up \u2013 the regret that I\u2019ll likely never make it, and the gratitude that he has left a body of work so large<\/a>, I can keep trying. His latest book American Babylon: Notes of a Christian Exile<\/em><\/a> is released this March.<\/p>\n

Neuhaus was such an accessible, always-interesting writer and teacher, and a man of tremendous faith. R.I.P.<\/p>\n

John Allen<\/strong> has a superb obituary, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A 2006 profile<\/a> in the NY Times.<\/p>\n

A priest of the New York archdiocese and a former Lutheran minister, Neuhaus was best known to society at large as an intellectual guru of what came to be known as the \u201creligious right.\u201d<\/p>\n

From the early 1970s forward, Neuhaus was a key architect of two alliances with profound consequences for American politics, both of which overcame histories of mutual antagonism: one between conservative Catholics and Protestant Evangelicals, and the other between free market neo-conservatives and \u201cfaith and values\u201d social conservatives.
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\nOver the years, even people who disagreed with Neuhaus\u2019 politics or theology would devour his monthly essay in First Things, titled \u201cThe Public Square,\u201d for sheer literary pleasure. His combination of epigrammatic formulae and occasionally biting satire often reminded fans of English-language Catholic luminaries of earlier eras, such as G.K. Chesterton or Cardinal John Henry Newman.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Also writing (continually updated as I find things):<\/strong>
\nPatrick O\u2019 Hannigan dedicates a review to Neuhaus<\/a>
\nAnthony Esolen at Touchstone<\/a>
\nRachel Zoll for the AP<\/a>
\nEditors at NRO<\/a>
\nPeter Wehner<\/a>
\nTed Olson<\/a>
\nThe Deacon\u2019s Bench<\/a>
\nKathryn Jean Lopez<\/a>
\nJohn Podhoretz<\/a>
\nInside Catholic: Zoe Romanowsky<\/a>
\nDallas News<\/a>
\nAmerica Magazine: Michael Sean Winters<\/a>
\nCommonweal<\/a>
\nAmerican Spectator<\/a>
\nCatholic News Agency<\/a>
\nRed State<\/a>
\nBlogging Religiously<\/a> (with a great closing line!)
\nSanctus Benedictus<\/a>
\nAmy Welborn<\/a><\/p>\n

Books by Richard John Neuhaus:<\/strong>
\n Amazon.com Widgets<\/a><\/p>\n

Amazon.com Widgets<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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