Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
My Brother in Christ
I was out of the country when I received the news that Richard John Neuhaus had died,…
The Areopagus of Morningside Heights
The stained-glass chancel windows at St. Paul’s Chapel on the Columbia campus form a triptych in which…
Opinion
The Naked Public Square: Religion and Democracy in America by Richard John Neuhaus Eerdmans, 292 pages, $28…
Letters of Condolence
Richard John Neuhaus May 14, 1936–January 8, 2009 I am deeply touched by the death of the…
Pilgrimage to Fifth Avenue
On occasional pilgrimages to visit Richard John Neuhaus at the First Things office on Fifth Avenue, I…
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…
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…
Talkin’ ‘bout My Generation
Richard John Neuhaus first came into my life at a seminar run by the Carnegie Council on…
In Refusal of Politics
Sapphics for Richard John Neuhaus If I have seen geese low on the east horizon, seen the…
Richard’s Book Club
Some virtues may be learned, others are inborn. Punctuality, for example, can be taught, at least in…
Fishers of Men
My memories of Fr. Richard go back to his beginning and before. He was the second son…
Here He Stood
A year after Richard John Neuhaus left Martin Luther’s Wittenberg for St. Peter’s Rome, he was interviewed…
He Threw It All Away
In the early 1970s, Lutheran pastor Richard John Neuhaus was poised to become the nation’s next great…
