Please pray for Father Richard John Neuhaus, who is quite ill. This note went out yesterday to his friends and associates:
Fr. Neuhaus is in the hospital here in New York. Over Thanksgiving, he was diagnosed with a serious cancer. The long-term prognosis for this particular cancer is not good, but it is not hopeless, either, and there is a possibility that it will respond to the recommended out-patient chemotherapy.Unfortunately, over Christmas, he was taken dangerously ill with what seems to be a systemic infection that has left him very weak. Entering the hospital the day after Christmas, he was sedated to lower an elevated heart rate and treatment was begun for the infection. Over the last few days, he has shown some signs of improvement, and there is a reasonable expectation that he will recover from this present illness--sufficiently, we hope, that he will be able to begin the chemotherapy for the cancer.
Fr. Neuhaus is not able at the moment to receive visitors or speak on the telephone or answer his mail, and he has requested that no flowers, candy, or other get-well presents be sent--just your prayers for his quick recovery. Further bulletins will be sent when there is news to report.
Please share this email with anyone you think would be interested. May we all have a blessed New Year.
Please do remember him in your prayers.
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Simple bio with links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_John_Neuhaus
Done. Please pray also for my friend Paulette, whose 'arrested' cancer came out slugging last week, in which case she is sched to begin radical chemo all over again. God bless us all in 2009. Amen
While I deeply disagree with Fr. Neuhaus' politics and theology, I will certainly keep him in my prayers for health and healing.
Thanks for posting this.
May God preserve him. Our differences do not matter in the face of this.
Andrew Sullivan names Fr. Neuhaus the "Theocon in Chief" because he thinks Fr. Neuhaus is some Black Legend-like Darth Vader/Torquemada advocating an anti-homosexual, anti-abortion political agenda and wants the churches (particularly the Catholic Church) to decide the legal status of all such issues, as well as foreign policy.
I think Sullivan's notion here is over the top.
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