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Praise for Catholic Matters
A new book from Fr. Richard John Neuhaus is always cause for celebration, and Catholic Matters: Confusion, Controversy,and the Splendor of Truth doesnt disappoint. He is not just a fine theologian but a thoroughly engaging writer, with an eye for the charming anecdote... To read Neuhaus is both to meet old friends and to be continually surprised.
The National Review
Neuhauss new book... gives us a detailed and up-to-date account of the kind of Catholicism... which he aims to inject into the heart of American public life.
The New Republic
This finely written book offers a refreshing analysis of an emerging Catholic identity in the United States. It does not skirt the contemporary scandals that embroil bishops and local congregations but adroitly transforms these thorny issues with liberating words of truth. With the mind of a theologian and the heart of a pastor, Neuhaus authors a clear commentary on American Catholic self-understanding in the early 21st century.... [Catholic Matters] is realistic, courageous, and hopeful as it describes a new generation of faithful Catholics reawakened by clerics like Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI.
Library Journal
Richard John Neuhaus is the most underrated writer in America.... Neuhaus writes with the kind of graceful prose that one associates with Hemingway or the essays of Aldous Huxley or Lionel Trilling. Yes, the man is first and foremostaccording to him anywaya priest. But as his terrific new book, Catholic Matters, shows, Neuhaus knows how to put pen to paper. Whether Catholic or not, its the kind of book one reads in one gulp, buoyed by tight, graceful sentences that one thought became extinct with the death of Orwell or Chesterton.
The American Spectator
There is a lot of meat in this relatively brief book, but Neuhauss careful service of it makes it as palatable as it is rich.
Booklist
Readers acquainted with Neuhauss previous books and his work with the magazine First Things will be most interested in this latest tome on the state of the Catholic Church... Neuhaus devotees and others interested in the issues he raises will find here a thoughtful exposition of Catholicisms present moment.
Publishers Weekly
This is the story of how one priest discovered the way of grace and glory that is being Catholic. Writing with eloquence, deep intelligence and wit, Father Neuhaus guides us past all the confusion and controversy and lets the splendor of truth shine through. If youre a serious Catholic, if you want to be a serious Catholic, if you want to know what it means to be a serious Catholic, read this book.
Peggy Noonan, author of John Paul the Great
Also by Richard John Neuhaus
Appointment in Rome: The Church in America Awakening
America Against Itself: Moral Vision and the Public Order
Doing Well and Doing Good: The Challenge
to the Christian Capitalist
The Naked Public Square
Dispensations: The Future of South Africa
as South Africans See It
The Catholic Moment: The Paradox of the
Church in the Postmodern World
Freedom for Ministry
Christian Faith and Public Policy: Thinking and
Acting in the Courage of Uncertainty
Time Toward Home: The American Experiment as Revelation
Death on a Friday Afternoon: Meditations on the
Last Words of Jesus from the Cross
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Copyright 2006 by Richard John Neuhaus
Hardcover published in 2006 by Basic Books,
A Member of the Perseus Books Group
Paperback published in 2007 by Basic Books
All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information, address Basic Books, 387 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10016-8810
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Neuhaus, Richard John.
Catholic matters : confusion, controversy, and the splendor of truth / Richard John Neuhaus.
p. cm.
ISBN-13: 978-0-465-04935-6; ISBN-10: 0-465-04935-4 (hardcover)
eBook ISBN: 9780465003792
1. Catholic Church. I. Title.
BX946.N48 2006
282.09'0511dc22
2005034569
ISBN-13: 978-0-465-04936-3; ISBN-10: 0-465-04936-2 (paperback)
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Avery Cardinal Dulles
friend and mentor
The Church We Mean When We Say Church
D uring those never-to-be-forgotten days of April 2005, I kept a Rome Diary. The significance of what happened there and then weaves in and out of all the reflections that follow. I flew into Romes Fiumicino Airport two days after the death of John Paul the Great, accompanied by an ABC network filmmaker who was making a documentary and had been following me about for several days. She had arranged for a car and dropped me off at the Hotel Michelangelo, adjacent to St. Peters, where I would be staying for a little more than two weeks. Later that day I wrote the first installment of the Rome Diary:
Thousands upon thousands, an endless flow of humanity down the long nave of St. Peters. They have come to see him for the last time. For all the crowds, the place is strangely quiet. A Roman friend with connections got me into the space reserved for dignitaries. There, on the catafalque only a few feet away, was what remained. Kneeling at the prie-dieu, I had only a few minutes, certainly no more than ten, to think what I wanted to think and pray what I wanted to pray in this moment I had so long anticipated and so irrationally hoped would never come. Odd thoughts came to mind. His back was straight again, after all those years of being so pitiably hunched and trembling from the Parkinsons disease. He seemed much smaller. Perhaps not much could have been done by those who had prepared the body. He was emaciated, beaten, and bruised. The purple spots on the hands revealed the efforts, toward the very end, to find one more vein for the intravenous feeding tube. Lying there before the altar, under Berninis massive bal-dachino, his head was tilted just slightly toward the right. Looking north, I thoughttoward Poland.
He has fought the good fight, he has kept the faith. Well done, good and faithful servant. These and other passages came unbidden. Through my tears, I tried to see again the years of his vitality, his charm, his challenge, his triumphs; the historic moments when I admired him from a distance; and the personal encounters when I was surprised by the gift of an older brother who was the Holy Father.
I envisioned him again on October 22, 1978, in his first homily as pope, admonishing and encouraging humanity to be not afraid. I saw him in Central Park, hand on cheek in a Jack Benny gesture, mischievously complimenting the crowds appreciation of his singing a Polish Christmas song. And you dont even know Polish, he said. I mentioned this when I had dinner with him months later and had to explain who Jack Benny was. In such conversations we discussed Nietzsche and Schopenhauer and the ideas that had shaped and misshaped the century, and whether the end of history was at hand. (He thought not.)
Kneeling there, I smiled through my tears. Then the time came to leave. Cardinals, bishops, heads of state, and others were waiting their turn. And all the thoughts I wanted to think and all the prayers I wanted to pray were distilled in a half-sobbed, half-whispered, Thank you, Holy Father.
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