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My eyes are wide open to the conflicts within the Church, but I don't think you can call it schism. - Richard Neuhaus Quotes

My eyes are wide open to the conflicts within the Church, but I don't think you can call it schism.

Richard Neuhaus

American Writer

If a church offers no truth that is not available in the general culture - in, for instance, the editorials of the New York Times or, for that matter, of National Review - there is not much reason to pay it attention. - Richard Neuhaus Quotes

If a church offers no truth that is not available in the general culture - in, for instance, the editorials of the New York Times or, for that matter, of National Review - there is not much reason to pay it attention.

Richard Neuhaus

American Writer

In legal parlance, that is called 'the rational person test,' ... That's where somebody else says, 'Even though we have no idea what this person would want in this circumstance in which they cannot themselves tell us what they want, a 'rational' person -- meaning, myself -- in that circumstance would want to die.' So you move very quickly from so-called voluntary euthanasia to involuntary euthanasia. These legal and medical developments are not simply hypothetical: They're in the courts right now. - Richard Neuhaus Quotes

In legal parlance, that is called 'the rational person test,' ... That's where somebody else says, 'Even though we have no idea what this person would want in this circumstance in which they cannot themselves tell us what they want, a 'rational' person -- meaning, myself -- in that circumstance would want to die.' So you move very quickly from so-called voluntary euthanasia to involuntary euthanasia. These legal and medical developments are not simply hypothetical: They're in the courts right now.

Richard Neuhaus

The idea of physician-assisted suicide is a direct and potentially lethal blow to the whole self-understanding of the medical profession. It all of a sudden finds itself in the position not of healing, but of killing. I think a lot of doctors who have reflected upon this philosophically recognize that it is a truly radical assault upon the very self-understanding of Western medicine. - Richard Neuhaus Quotes

The idea of physician-assisted suicide is a direct and potentially lethal blow to the whole self-understanding of the medical profession. It all of a sudden finds itself in the position not of healing, but of killing. I think a lot of doctors who have reflected upon this philosophically recognize that it is a truly radical assault upon the very self-understanding of Western medicine.

Richard Neuhaus

Self

Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion - Richard Neuhaus Quotes

Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion

Richard Neuhaus

The vicissitudes of history, however, have not dissuaded them from their earnest search for a

The vicissitudes of history, however, have not dissuaded them from their earnest search for a "third way" between socialism and capitalism, namely socialism

Richard Neuhaus

I became a Catholic in order to be more fully the Christian I was as a Lutheran, and that is what has happened. - Richard Neuhaus Quotes

I became a Catholic in order to be more fully the Christian I was as a Lutheran, and that is what has happened.

Richard Neuhaus

Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon. - Richard Neuhaus Quotes

Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.

Richard Neuhaus

American Writer Evil

I think the barbarity of the English language currently used in the liturgy is cause enough for sorrow without further fiddling in terms of feminist inclusiveness. - Richard Neuhaus Quotes

I think the barbarity of the English language currently used in the liturgy is cause enough for sorrow without further fiddling in terms of feminist inclusiveness.

Richard Neuhaus

On such questions, the church has clearly defined positions, - Richard Neuhaus Quotes

On such questions, the church has clearly defined positions,

Richard Neuhaus

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