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# Neuhaus
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/7216/
- Published: 2009-01-09T11:33:20.000Z
- Updated: 2009-01-09T11:33:20.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: TWE, #wpChunk

I turned on my computer and saw that [Fr. Richard John Neuhaus died yesterday](http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/09/us/09neuhaus.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). Fr. Neuhaus' *Naked Public Square* was one of the first "adult" books I read as I started to take an interest in politics, philosophy, and other such matters. When I was at Notre Dame Law School, I made some comment to a professor to the effect, "Well, at least us Lutherans have Neuhaus." He looked at me funny and said, "Didn't you hear he became Catholic?" I don't know if it played a role in my conversion, but it definitely startled me. I met Fr. Neuhaus briefly when I attended a *[Touchstone](http://merecomments.typepad.com/merecomments/2009/01/esolen-on-fr-richard-neuhaus.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com)* conference about five years ago. He struck me as a jovial fellow, but smart. It may have been the only time in my life that a writer in person fit the mental image I had formed of him in my mind.

[*City Journal* this morning has a tribute to him](http://www.city-journal.org/2009/eon0109ba.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com).