Fr Richard Neuhaus, R.I.P.
Posted February 13, 2009, 08:02 ET
Fr Neuhaus died a month ago, and the current issue of First Things has a collection of his back-of-the-book Public Square comments. It’s a fine magazne, but I wonder how many people, like me, first read with delight Neuhaus’ Public Square, and then turned to the front end of the magazine with a grim sense of duty.
Neuhaus had the finest wit of anyone around, save perhaps Mark Steyn. I am told by one of his close friends that, shortly before he died, he had someone read a biography of Stalin to him, for the dark humor in it.
I visited him once. We had a brief chat, punctuated by calls he took from the White House.
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