Re: [asa] Death of Fr Neuhaus

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Ted Davis <TDavis@messiah.edu> wrote:
I was out of the country most of last month and only just learned that Fr
Richard John Neuhaus passed away.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/08/AR2009010803685.html
Fr Neuhaus was a visionary leader, IMO, and I am deeply saddened by this
news, although I hope to meet him in a better place. I wrote just one essay
for his magazine, First Things, but I'd love to do more. Was there any
conversation about this while I was AWOL? - Ted

<> I was the only one to mention it. No one else had a comment one way or
the other. (See below)

- Lynn

On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:19:06 -0500 Lynn Walker lynn.wlkr@gmail.com wrote:
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First Things: Richard John Neuhaus, 1936?2009

Fr. Richard John Neuhaus slipped away today, January 8, shortly before 10
o?clock, at the age of seventy-two. ..." [snip] Fr. Neuhaus was a Lutheran
who converted to Catholicism sometime in the late '80s or early '90s.

Neuhaus quote: "*Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their
religion" *.

Source: First Things:* *http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=1280

*Pope Benedict agrees: * "[Some Christians] are involved in *a disastrous
confusion between the poor of the Scripture and the proletariat of Marx."
*Source: Instruction on Certain Aspects of "Theology of Liberation" Sacred
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith August 6, 1984
<http://www.newadvent.org/library/docs_df84lt.htm>

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Received on Thu Feb 5 11:25:43 2009