The late Fr. Neuhaus, of happy memory, often relayed to his First things readers important commentary on what he encountered during what seems to have been a dutiful daily digestion of the NYT. I greatly appreciate all the suffering he endured on my and others’ behalf, and now I understand that this duty may also have had a pastoral element (many thanks!).

P.S. I’ll be sure to keep J.B. in my prayers while he trudges on, apparently, under a similar yoke.