{"id":633,"date":"2009-01-09T15:15:12","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T15:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stevenwaldman\/2009\/01\/the-death-of-father-neuhaus-th.html"},"modified":"2009-01-09T15:15:12","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T15:15:12","slug":"the-death-of-father-neuhaus-th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/2009\/01\/the-death-of-father-neuhaus-th.html","title":{"rendered":"The Death of Father Neuhaus &amp; The Ailing Catholic-Evangelical Alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stevenwaldman\/imgs\/neuhaus.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"neuhaus.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/128\/import\/assets_c\/2009\/01\/neuhaus-thumb-91x114-2741.jpg\" width=\"91\" height=\"114\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0 20px 20px 0\" \/><\/a><\/span>.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/blogs\/god-and-country\/2009\/1\/9\/richard-neuhauss-death-and-the-catholicevangelical-tension-in-politics.html\">Dan Gilgoff of U.S. News &amp; World Report<\/a> writes that Father Richard Neuhaus, who died this week, was the architect of the conservative Catholic-Evangelical political alliance.<br \/>\nProvocatively, Gilgoff argues that Catholics have provided the brains and evangelicals the braun for the alliance. Can&#8217;t wait to hear what the evangelical leaders think of that characterization but it is striking that, as Dan notes, the recent conservative Supreme Court appointments have all been Catholic.<br \/>\nIf Neuhaus was the architect of the Catholic-Evangelical alliance then his death may be metaphorically resonant in the same way Jerry Falwell&#8217;s became symbolic for a weakening of old-style evangelical politics. Just two months before Neuhaus&#8217;s death the Catholic-Evangelical alliance unravelled, with the Catholic vote <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stevenwaldman\/2008\/11\/exit-polls-the-faith-factor-20.html\">shifting massively back in the Democratic direction this year<\/a>.<br \/>\nA survey by <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stevenwaldman\/2008\/09\/are-evangelicals-and-catholics.html\"> Professor John Green in September <\/a> indicated that Catholic and evangelical sentiment had been diverging for several years.<br \/>\nIn 2004, for instance, vast majorities of traditional white evangelicals (85%) and traditional (i.e. observant) white Catholics (70%) thought the war in Iraq was &#8220;justified&#8221;; by August of 2008, conservative white evangelical support for the war had declined somewhat to 76.8% but conservative Catholic support has plummeted to 46.8%.<br \/>\nThe same pattern persisted on other issues:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 2004, white observant evangelicals and Catholics were kindred spirits [about gay marriage]: 90% of these evangelicals supported &#8220;traditional marriage&#8221; and 72.9% of traditional Catholics did. But while evangelicals still hold those views, the ground has shifted tremendously for Catholics. About 86.6% of traditional white evangelicals still believe only in traditional marriage, while 58.4% of traditional white Catholics now do.<br \/>\nThe percentage of traditional white evangelicals who want stricter environmental regulation fell 15 points while the percentage of traditional white Catholics went up 3.7 points!<br \/>\nFinally, this same divergence appears in the questions about which issues matter most. In 2004, 10% of evangelicals listed the economy as the top priority; 17% of traditional Catholics did. This time, 33% of evangelicals do and 56.9% of Catholics do. There was a seven-point difference between the groups in 2004 and a 23 point spread in 2008.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>.Dan Gilgoff of U.S. News &amp; World Report writes that Father Richard Neuhaus, who died this week, was the architect of the conservative Catholic-Evangelical political alliance. Provocatively, Gilgoff argues that Catholics have provided the brains and evangelicals the braun for the alliance. Can&#8217;t wait to hear what the evangelical leaders think of that characterization but&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Death of Father Neuhaus &amp; The Ailing Catholic-Evangelical Alliance - Steven Waldman<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/2009\/01\/the-death-of-father-neuhaus-th.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Death of Father Neuhaus &amp; The Ailing Catholic-Evangelical Alliance - Steven Waldman\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\".Dan Gilgoff of U.S. News &amp; World Report writes that Father Richard Neuhaus, who died this week, was the architect of the conservative Catholic-Evangelical political alliance. 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