Richard John Neuhaus, 72, editor in chief of First Things, president of the Institute on Religion and Public Life, and author of numerous books, died Jan. 8 in New York City....Neuhaus began his ecclesiastical career in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and led an African-American congregation in Brooklyn, where he became a civil-rights advocate, marching in Selma, Ala., alongside Martin Luther King Jr. He became a national figure when he broke with the conservative Protestant denomination to join the Roman Catholic Church....in 1990.
Belz then quotes Richard N. Ostling:
"He was skeptical of the right wing of his denomination but also of the National Council of Churches and mainline denominations. As a Roman Catholic, he became a real leader of the conservative, pro-Vatican, traditionalist flank of the Catholic Church....a powerful voice in the pro-life movement..."
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