Rod Dreher: Richard John Neuhaus, Damon Linker, and Me

[Roamin_Xian]

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linked below to Damon Linker’s remembrance of Father Neuhaus, and do so here again. I’ve been waiting all day to see what Damon would say. He was from 2001 to 2005 either the associate editor or editor of First Things, and then broke severely with Neuhaus and the magazine.His 2006 book, “The Theocons: Secular America Under Siege” attacked Neuhaus and his neoconservative Catholic cohorts for what he considered to be their agenda to turn America toward the religious right.

Hearing of Father Neuhaus’ death today brought to mind the one time I met Damon. It was at some point in the spring of 2002, during the height of the Catholic sex abuse scandal revelations. I was writing fiercely about them at National Review, and was getting angry calls from Fr. Neuhaus telling me to knock it off. In truth, I don’t remember the rationales he offered, but I will never forget his telling me I had no business writing for NRO this story and this follow-up about the Society of St.John, a weird Catholic men’s order in the Diocese of Scranton that had been credibly accused of sexual misconduct with minor males. Fr.Neuhaus was quite put out with me for having published it. I asked him why I

 

[pauli67]

Rod Dreher once again shows what a classless anti-Catholic he is by making RJN’s death all about himself and some erstwhile encounter in which they had a disagreement.

Meanwhile, useful Catholic idiot Doug Kmiec used Father Neuhaus’s death to mention Obama, whom he helped get elected by telling Catholic’s that they were allowed to vote for a pro-abortion candidate.

Meanwhile, Fr. Robert Sirico wrote a memorial piece worth reading.

RIP