The magazine "First Things" was instrumental in my late intellectual development. Along with New Oxford Review and National Review, it was one of those periodicals that helped shape my current thought and religious / political philosophy.
And now, the founder of "First Things", Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, has just died. The man was one of my intellectual heroes, right up there with Thomas Sowell, Mortimer Adler and Robert George, among others. Add to that the fact that he leaves at the worst time, when the world enters the age of Obama, and our side of the culture wars needs all the leaders it can get, anywhere in the world.
But, he has more than earned his rest. The sorrow is mainly, as the editor of "First Things" puts it, for those who remain. It's called the Valley of Tears for a reason. May God welcome this good priest into Paradise.
Requiscat in Pace
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