My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised.

In 1960 he was ordained a Lutheran minister later serving as pastor of St. Louis Missouri. He is the originator of "Neuhaus's Law" which states that "Where orthodoxy is optional orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed".

Richard John Neuhaus (May 14 1936 – January 8 2009) was a prominent Christian cleric (first as a Lutheran pastor and later as a Roman Catholic priest) and writer. Born in Canada Neuhaus moved to the United States where he became a naturalized United States citizen. He was a staunch defender of the Roman Catholic Church's teachings on abortion and other life issues and an unofficial advisor of President George W.