Fr.
Richard John Neuhaus
R.I.P.
1936 to January 8, 2009
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Public terms, he had 2 huge
ideas that changed America:
1.
the idea of the Supreme
Court's tendency since 1947
to put
"No Establishment" and "the
Free exercise of Religion" against
each other, seemed to him
fundamentally wrong-headed
and a basic misreading of
the constitution. The whole
point of not having a government-established
church is to create the
free space for the free
exercise of belief.
2.
the idea that the pro-life
movement is the natural,
moral successor to the civil
rights movement because
the moral truths on which
the pro-life movement is
based are the same moral
truths that inform the struggle
for civil rights.
George
Weigel
Catholic Author and Theologian |
