The best testimony to a life well-lived is the testimony of such a large circle of Fr. Neuhaus’s friends. Nevertheless, an outsider to this circle may discern in their tributes a somewhat worrying thread of instability. The career of Fr. Neuhaus is more than a little reminiscent of that of another charismatic cleric of a couple of generations ago. I refer to the late Episcopal bishop, James Pike. His life was one of constant discontent with his religious faith, perhaps best exemplified by his chain-smoking—I seem to remember him with three lit cigarettes at one time. He came to a tragicomic end in the Israeli desert where he had ventured, with his young wife and a large bottle of coke to sustain him, in search of the origins of Christianity. When his rented car became lodged on a high center, and finding himself unable to penetrate the mystery of a car-jack, he wandered off in search of help, never again to be seen alive. His vigorous wife survived.