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...race. (And I was once asked by an older couple who nevertheless assured me they were voting Democrat whether I was the “right color for that job” when I announced myself as an Obama campaign worker.) But for most people, questions about religion or race were largely overshadowed by economic considerations...
...brought the chaplain along to participate as well. But in a shrewd political maneuver, Roosevelt also opened up a second religious slot on the program for Father John Ryan, an influential figure in Catholic social teaching and a prominent supporter of the New Deal. As Mark Silk, professor of religion at Trinity College, has written, Ryan was not only known as "the Right Rev. New Dealer," but he was also the most effective critic of Father Charles Coughlin, the notorious right-wing, anti-Roosevelt priest. Ryan's participation in the Inauguration helped insulate Roosevelt against Coughlin's attacks and shore...
...almost half a century, the Rev. Richard John Neuhaus, who died on Jan. 8 at age 72, stood against the conventional view that religion has no place in public life. The son of a Lutheran pastor (as he too was for many years), he became an antiwar and civil rights activist in the '60s and a leading religious conservative in the '70s, jolted into that role by the troubling moral implications he found in Roe v. Wade. In 1990 he converted to Roman Catholicism, though he thought he was beyond easy categorization, describing himself as "religiously orthodox, culturally conservative, politically...
...while he was a classic example of the public intellectual who wrote deeply and widely, the Richard Neuhaus I knew was also much more. He was first and foremost a wise and kind man, whose social and political activism was not a "substitute for religion." On the contrary, he always insisted that the true meaning of politics could not be grasped apart from the understanding that there are more important things . That is how he was able to be such a happy warrior, and a generous and loving one at that...
Hail to the Chief TIME's nomination of Barack Obama as Person of the Year was a fitting tribute to a man who achieved the impossible in the land of the free by transcending barriers of race, religion and region to take the mantle of leadership in a country that once again can inspire the rest of the world [Dec. 29]. TIME's presentation of pictures and features on Obama makes him simply the most celebrated man in our time. K. Chidanand Kumar, Bangalore, India...