{"id":405,"date":"2009-01-08T14:16:55","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T14:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/?p=405"},"modified":"2025-09-30T02:17:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T02:17:42","slug":"fr-richard-john-neuhaus-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/?p=405","title":{"rendered":"Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Neuhaus died this morning -&#0160;evidently a return of the cancer he had ten years ago. Only a few days ago he&#39;d briefly posted something on&#0160;the <strong><em>First Things<\/em><\/strong> website saying he was undergoing treatment.&#0160;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hvcljournal.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341cc5fb53ef010536bdc598970c-pi\" style=\"DISPLAY: inline\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Neuhaus\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8341cc5fb53ef010536bdc598970c \" src=\"https:\/\/hvcljournal.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341cc5fb53ef010536bdc598970c-120wi\" \/><\/a>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>His death is a loss for the rest of us. Neuhaus was a well-known Lutheran Minister who converted to Catholicism around 1989, and was ordained a priest by Cardinal O&#39;Connor in 1990. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#39;s what was posted this morning on the&#0160;<strong><em>First Things<\/em><\/strong> website &#8211; a brief announcement by Editor Joseph Bottum, and an essay by Neuhaus written in February, 2000 entitled &quot;Born Toward Dying&quot;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/\"><font color=\"#800080\"><strong>FIRST THINGS: A Journal of Religion, Culture, and Public Life<\/strong><\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information&#0160;on Fr.&#39;s life, there&#39;s already an obituary up on National Catholic Reporter (NCR) by John Allen. Unfortunately there&#39;s way too much of the &quot;religious right&quot;, &quot;progressive&quot; politicalspeak, but then that&#39;s NCR&#39;s style. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ncronline3.org\/drupal\/?q=node\/3063\"><font color=\"#800080\"><strong>Fr. Richard John Neuhaus dead at age 72 | National Catholic Reporter<\/strong><\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He will be missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Neuhaus died this morning -&#0160;evidently a return of the cancer he had ten years ago. Only a few days ago he&#39;d briefly posted something on&#0160;the First Things website saying he was undergoing treatment.&#0160; &#0160; His death is a loss for the rest of us. Neuhaus was a well-known Lutheran Minister who converted to Catholicism [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":949,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions\/949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}