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 |
