Father Richard Neuhaus: Catholic conservative commentator

This is a couple of days old but Richard Neuhaus has died. From the London Times-

Father Richard Neuhaus was the most visible, prolific and influential Christian thinker in the US, and he was, in natural consequence, among the most reviled, despised and denounced figures in modern public intellectual life.

A convert from Lutheranism to Catholicism, he may have had his most obvious parallel in the Anglican-turned-Roman Catholic John Henry Newman, whose conversion struggles enthralled and enraged England in the 1840s. Neuhaus belonged, however, to a distinctly American line of thinkers, and his death seems to bring to a close the long run of America’s theological writers — from Jonathan Edwards to Ralph Waldo Emerson to Orestes Brownson to Reinhold Niebuhr — with the strange gift of inspiring, infuriating and fascinating the intellectual class of the nation.

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article5517879.ece