My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
In the gay (Catholic) community, it would seem, the maxim is: love the sin and love the sinner, but hate anyone who calls it a sin or him a sinner. — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
“The deeper truth is that reform, if it is real reform, is an exercise of love. Prophecy, if it is real prophecy, is an… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
In legal parlance, that is called 'the rational person test,' ... That's where somebody else says, 'Even though we have no idea what this… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
One would like to believe that people who think of themselves as devout Christians would also behave in a manner that is in according… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
If a church offers no truth that is not available in the general culture - in, for instance, the editorials of the New York… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
One must never underestimate the profound bigotry and anti-intellectualism and intolerance and illiberality of liberalism. — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
All my life I have prayed to God that I should remain religiously orthodox, culturally conservative, politically liberal and economically pragmatic. — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
“In recent decades, "pluralism" has become something of a buzzword. It is variously employed. Often it is used to argue that no normative ethic,… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
Consumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by having rather… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
Whatever else the religious Right may be, it is a bonanza for its opponents... Reports of the great terror that is upon us are… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
The vicissitudes of history, however, have not dissuaded them from their earnest search for a "third way" between socialism and capitalism, namely socialism — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
“In other words, every party will be permitted to contend for their truths so long as they acknowledge that they are their truths, and… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon. — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
