The co-founder and longtime editor of First Things, and noted conservative polemicist, has passed away at age seventy-two.

I’ve drifted away from reading FT over the last few years, partly because it seems to me to have embraced a more down-the-line conservative ideology than before (whether that says more about them or me is debatable). But I had been a pretty regular reader since the late 90s and was introduced in its pages to a lot of ideas, debates, and thinkers that shaped my understanding of Christian faith and life. So I have Fr. Neuhaus in part to thank for that.

Other blogger reflections here, here, and here.

RIP.