Here's a great photo of Father Neuhaus. I'm sure he's celebrating with his Savior, and all his friends there now--like one I knew, Dr. H. O. J. Brown.
Posted on 01/08/2009 7:24:21 AM PST by NYer
Fr. Richard John Neuhaus slipped away today, January 8, shortly before 10 o’clock, at the age of seventy-two. He never recovered from the weakness that sent him to the hospital the day after Christmas, caused by a series of side effects from the cancer he was suffering. He lost consciousness Tuesday evening after a collapse in his heart rate, and the next day, in the company of friends, he died.
My tears are not for him—for he knew, all his life, that his Redeemer lives, and he has now been gathered by the Lord in whom he trusted.
I weep, rather for all the rest of us. As a priest, as a writer, as a public leader in so many struggles, and as a friend, no one can take his place. The fabric of life has been torn by his death, and it will not be repaired, for those of us who knew him, until that time when everything is mended and all our tears are wiped away.
Funeral arrangements are still being planned; information about the funeral will be made public shortly. Please accept our thanks for all your prayers and good wishes.
In Deepest Sorrow,
Joseph Bottum
Editor
Here's a great photo of Father Neuhaus. I'm sure he's celebrating with his Savior, and all his friends there now--like one I knew, Dr. H. O. J. Brown.
The loss surely is ours. Fr Neuhaus has completed his mission on this sphere and rests in the arms of his Lord.
Here is a thread on the article you posted about the importance of life in the last election:
And here is his last column:
Conspicuously absent is any word of condelence from Fr. Neuhaus's former denomination. Its leader is too busy being pimped by Hamas in Gaza.
What perverted priorities!
I look forward to seeing Chuck Colson’s tribute to Father Neuhaus, the two were great friends (and Colson was fiercely criticized by Evangelicals for their work together).
Please take me off your ping list...
Rest in peace, Father.
Rest in peace.
Rest in Peace. May God wrap His loving arms around those whom he left behind, giving them His peace that passes all understanding.
What do you think Fr. Neuhaus would think of your petty and divisive post?
May Fr. Neuhaus’ memory be eternal!!!!
When our great Orthodox (OCA) and former ELCA Lutheran historian and theologian Jaroslav Pelikan fell asleep in the Lord, even the Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarchate in Belgrade had condolences and a bio on its website immediately. However, the ELCA’s response was very late and very small. So look for a similar response with Fr. Neuhaus.
I know what ELCA pastors and officials said about Fr. Neuhaus—he was considered their ideological enemy. But even Jaroslav Pelikan, who was not considered such an ideological enemy, was treated shabbily by the ELCA. Jerry was, however, an embarrassment to the ELCA establishment, as am I in a much smaller way.
Chosen souls are, in My hand, lights which I cast into the darkness of the world and with which I illumine it. As stars illumine the night, so chosen souls illumine the earth. And the more perfect a soul is, the stronger and the more far-reaching is the light shed by it. It can be hidden and unknown, even to those closest to it, and yet its holiness is reflected in souls even to the most distant extremities of the world. (1601)
Diary of St. Faustina
O God of all spirits and all flesh, Who has trodden down death, destroying the power of the devil, bestowing life on Your worl, to the soul of Your servant, the Holy Priest Richard departed this life, do You Yourself, O Lord, give rest in a place of light, in a place of green pasture, in a place of refreshment, from where pain and sorrow and mourning are fled away. Every sin by him committed in thought, word, or deed, do You as our good and loving God forgive, seeing that there is no man that shall live and sin not, for You alone are without sin: Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and Your law is truth.
For You are the Resurrection, the Life, and the Repose of Your servant, the Holy Priest Richard, O Christ our God; and to You do we send up Glory, as to Your Eternal Father and Your All-Holy, Good, and Life-creating Spirit, both now and ever, and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
Richard John Neuhaus was a former Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod clergyman. I don’t think he belonged to the liberal ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) before becoming Roman Catholic. His father, as I recall, was an LCMS pastor in Canada, one of his sisters was married to a professor at Concordia Teachers College in Seward, Nebraska, and another sister was a student at Concordia - Nebraska when I was. An older brother was a conservative Lutheran layman in Canada. John attended Concordia in Austin, Texas (he was a sophomore in college when I was a freshman in high school there) for a portion of his educational experience and Concordia Seminary in St. Louis. His comments (and beliefs) retained his “Lutheran upbringing” in salvation by grace through faith without works, even though he coverted to Catholicism.
Actually, lightman was referring to the ELCA. Basically, he meant that they didn’t say anything about Neuhaus’s passing.
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