This just in from Jody Bottum:
A Funeral Mass will be celebrated for Father Richard John Neuhaus at the Church of the Immaculate Conception--414 E. 14th Street, New York City--on Tuesday, January 13, 2009, at 10 a.m. Bishops and priests who wish to attend are asked please to inform Nathaniel Peters (by email or phone 212-627-2288) by Sunday afternoon, January 11, at the latest. A Christian wake service in the form of a Vigil for the Deceased will be celebrated at the Church of the Immaculate Conception on Monday evening, January 12, at 7:30 p.m. Clergy who plan to attend are asked to sit with the congregation. In lieu of flowers, donations are requested for Fr. Neuhaus' work, the Institute on Religion and Public Life, online at this page or by mail to: Institute on Religion and Public Life 156 Fifth Avenue Suite 400 New York, NY 10010
Alternately, I suppose, you could subscribe to First Things ($39.95/yr print & online edition, or $29.95 for the online edition alone). No better tribute to the man than to help subsidize the continuation of his work.
Any of you readers who go to Fr. Neuhaus' wake or funeral, please write to tell us what it was like.
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I remember Father Neuhaus as if it were yesterday, at J.P. McFaddens place in 1990. It was a St. Patrick's Day celebration. Richard John Neuhaus would be a Catholic. J.P.McFadden would be a help and to hear
these men in conversation is something I will never forget. It is a sad
day to lose him but he is in the best of company for all eternity and that is something. Rest in Peace,Father Neuhaus. My prayers for all those who mourn his passing especially his family.
Such a wonderful man, a priest, a journalist, so young i feel such an unexpected loss of the great commentator for the Pope Benedict visit to the USA. Our gift has returned to God. We are greatful.
I was at the wake. Standing room only at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church on 14th St. Fr. Neuhaus's coffin was draped in white. References were sometimes made to Neuhaus' now being in heaven, and sometimes prayers for the repose of his soul were uttered. The speakers were eloquent, of course--George Weigel, Jody Bottum, and two Lutherans whose names I'm trying to determine.
The whole was disturbingly ecumenical, as the celebrant, wearing a cope, was apparently a Lutheran minister (and married, as he mentioned his wife). Scandalous, in my opinion. He and the other Lutheran frequently used the word "church" to mean some supra-denominational organization. At the end he gave us his invalid blessing.
"The whole was disturbingly ecumenical, as the celebrant, wearing a cope, was apparently a Lutheran minister (and married, as he mentioned his wife). Scandalous, in my opinion. He and the other Lutheran frequently used the word "church" to mean some supra-denominational organization. At the end he gave us his invalid blessing."
A bit of a hasty remark, as the celebrant is Fr. Leonard Klein, a former Lutheran Pastor, who like Fr. Neuhaus, converted to Catholicism and after studies, was ordained just a few years ago. You can see his ordination news at this link:
http://www.catholic.org/national/national_story.php?id=19345
Well that's good news. I do apologize. Was the second eulogist a Lutheran?
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