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Essays

The Great Convivium

Fr. Raymond J. de Souza

Cardinal Ratzinger said in his funeral homily for John Paul the Great: “This is not the time…

The One True Church

Richard John Neuhaus

Richard John Neuhaus died on January 8, 2009, at the age of seventy-two—a great loss to the…

Opinion

Canadian Summers

Tim Moyle

My first impression of Richard John Neuhaus was not positive. Soon after his ordination as a Catholic…

Evening Prayer

Robert Louis Wilken

The Richard I knew and loved was a man of prayer and of liturgy. He knew that…

Multiplying Himself

George Weigel

How to capture the essence of Richard John Neuhaus and his impact on others? Perhaps numbers help.…

Bread Upon the Waters

Arthur Simon

The death of Richard John Neuhaus shocked and saddened me. I learned of it by calling to…

Here He Stood

Russell E. Saltzman

A year after Richard John Neuhaus left Martin Luther’s Wittenberg for St. Peter’s Rome, he was interviewed…

Religion, Culture, and Public Life

R. R. Reno

Richard John Neuhaus never seemed to lack for pithy, authoritative formulations. Neuhaus’ Law provides an obvious example:…

The Gift of Lightheartedness

Ramesh Ponnuru

In what has become a winter of farewells for conservatives, the hardest loss was that of Fr.…

Fishers of Men

Erwin E. Prange

My memories of Fr. Richard go back to his beginning and before. He was the second son…

Evangelicals and Catholics Together

James I. Packer

The sudden death of Fr. Neuhaus from recrudescent cancer hits us all hard. First Things itself, which…

Richard’s Book Club

Edward T. Oakes

Some virtues may be learned, others are inborn. Punctuality, for example, can be taught, at least in…

Day by Day

James Nuechterlein

Richard John Neuhaus had a big life, but his day-by-day world was a small one. There was…

Talkin’ ‘bout My Generation

Michael Novak

Richard John Neuhaus first came into my life at a seminar run by the Carnegie Council on…

Richard and the Jews

David Novak

In his youth in rural Ontario and rural Texas, Richard John Neuhaus had little or no contact…

First Things First

Hadley Arkes

For his friends this is the kind of loss that tilts the world on its axis; for…

The Rockford Raid

Maria McFadden Maffucci

Longtime First Things readers have heard, no doubt, about the “Rockford Raid.” How, on the morning of…

Reviews

The Kingdoms of the World

Stanley Hauerwas

American Babylon: Notes of a Christian Exile by Richard John Neuhaus Basic, 265 pages, $26.95 Near the…

Mediating Institutions

Wilfred M. McClay

To Empower People: From State to Civil Society Twentieth Anniversary ­Edition by Richard John Neuhaus and Peter…

Ministering to Ministry

Timothy George

Freedom for Ministry by Richard John Neuhaus. Eerdmans, 272 pages, $26. Among his many books, Freedom for…

Opinion

Steven D. Smith

The Naked Public Square: Religion and Democracy in America by Richard John Neuhaus Eerdmans, 292 pages, $28…

Poetry

In Refusal of Politics

Joseph Bottum

Sapphics for Richard John Neuhaus If I have seen geese low on the east horizon, seen the…

Other

To Light a Candle

Stephen M. Barr

I first came across the name of Richard John Neuhaus when he was writing religion columns for…

We’re Gonna Turn This Around

Peter L. Berger

Richard used to put up cartoons in his bathroom. One, which stayed there for some time, showed…

I Measure Every Grief I Meet

Joseph Bottum

He was the greatest reader I ever met. The greatest reader, and a cigar smoker, and a…

Neuhaus Invades Poland

Alicia Chesser

Fr. Neuhaus had a missionary zeal, a fervor for argument and conversation in defense of the faith…

My Brother in Christ

Charles W. Colson

I was out of the country when I received the news that Richard John Neuhaus had died,…

Comrades in Arms

Midge Decter

When I first came to spend my days in the office of the Institute on Religion and…

Vintage Richard

Jean Bethke Elshtain

Over three decades ago, the phone rang in my office at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where…

The Areopagus of Morningside Heights

Nicholas Frankovich

The stained-glass chancel windows at St. Paul’s Chapel on the Columbia campus form a triptych in which…

Pilgrimage to Fifth Avenue

Michael Gerson

On occasional pilgrimages to visit Richard John Neuhaus at the First Things office on Fifth Avenue, I…

My Personal Strunk and White

Jonathan V. Last

Growing up a Catholic boy in suburban South Jersey, I knew my share of priests. They were…