Richard John Neuhaus followed from a Lutheran boyhood to the Catholic priesthood was a journey home. From the April 2002 issue. This is more a story than an argument. It is in some ways a very personal story, and yet not without broader implications. It is j

Richard John Neuhaus died on January 8, 2009, at the age of seventy-two—a great loss to the magazine, to American public discourse, and to his many friends. We present here a previously unpublished essay, “The One True Church,” which he wrote in New Yor

Richard John Neuhaus died on January 8, 2009, at the age of seventy-two—a great loss to the magazine, to American public discourse, and to his many friends. We present here a few of our favorite items from the nineteen years of his work in The Public Square. T

Richard John Neuhaus is editor in chief of First Things.

Richard John Neuhaus.” This is, I am afraid, a grave disservice to Cardinal Dulles' intellectual integrity in his determination to “think with the Church.” Others have also suggested that Dulles' betrayal of liberal orthodoxy is attributable to his having fall

Whatever else it is, the pro-life movement of the last thirty-plus years is one of the most massive and sustained expressions of citizen participation in the history of the United States. Since the 1960s, citizen participation and the remoralizing of politics

While We're At It • Here's an interesting statement by Rod Dreher of the Dallas Morning News, who also runs the “Crunchy Con” blog on beliefnet.com. Some years ago he was giving major attention to the sex-abuse crisis in the Catholic Church, and a p

Richard John Neuhaus is editor in chief of First Things. This article is adapted from a lecture delivered this summer at St. Vladimir's Orthodox Seminary in Crestwood, New York.

The Public Square In 2007, as the Anglican communion was tearing itself apart, the archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, announced that he was taking a sabbatical, causing eyebrows—and in some quarters alarums—to be raised. Was he throwing in the towe

The Public Square “This is beyond left or right, conservative or liberal.” So we are regularly told by those who are called the beyondists as they push familiar causes of the left or right. There are some things that really should be beyond partisan label

Richard John Neuhaus hailed the monumental achievement of Dostoevsky biographer Joseph Frank, who died last week at age ninety-four, yet lamented what might have been: “By having Dostoevsky’s story told in conventionally liberal terms of the conflict between r

Richard John Neuhaus every year on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. —The Editors Once again this year, the National Right to Life convention is partly a reunion of veterans from battles past and partly a youth rally of those recruited for the battles to come.

Richard John Neuhaus, who passed away January 8, 2009, was originally printed in the October 2002 issue of First Things. I know it is a fact, but it is nonetheless hard to picture: Had he lived, Martin Luther King, Jr. would now be seventy-three years old. E

Richard John Neuhaus called “my dear friend” and who received him into full communion with the Catholic Church in September 1990 at the chapel in his residence. Following are four tributes to the cardinal, beginning with one from Father Neuhaus, given a few da

Richard John Neuhaus, who passed away January 8, 2009, was the founding editor of First Things.

Richard John Neuhaus every year on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. — The Editors Once again this year, the National Right to Life convention is partly a reunion of veterans from battles past and partly a youth rally of those recruited for the battles to come.

(In honor of Martin Luther King Day, we thought it would appropriate to repost this rememberance by Fr. Neuhaus. This article originally appeared in the October 2002 issue of First Things.) I know it is a fact, but it is nonetheless hard to picture: Had he l

Richard John Neuhaus, who passed away January 8, 2009, was published in the February 1999 issue of First Things, and is reprinted below in honor of the feast day of Mother Teresa. A couple of years ago physicist Alan Sokal published an article in Social Te

Exploration into God is exploration into darkness, into the heart of darkness. Yes, to be sure, God is light. He is the light by which all light is light. In the words of the Psalm, “In your light we see light.” Yet great mystics of the Christian tradition sp

Richard John Neuhaus, who passed away January 8, 2009, was published in the August/September 2008 issue of First Things, and is reprinted below on the one-year anniversary of Pope Benedict's visit. In saying that one must guard against superlatives in re

Richard John Neuhaus and the “Rockford Raid,” which appeared in the April 2009 issue.

Richard John Neuhaus, which appeared in the April 2009 edition.

Richard John Neuhaus' article, “The Pro-Life Movement as the Politics of the 1960s,” both of which appeared in the January 2009 issue.