OK, bounced around First Things— Wingnut Central. Recent posts:

The Day Democrats Dumped the Antiwar Movement

Hate Speech Against Terri Schiavo on The Family Guy

Etc.

More on neuhaus (wiki):

n 1984, Neuhaus established the Center for Religion and Society as part of the Rockford Institute, which also publishes Chronicles. He and the center were “forcibly evicted” from the Institute in 1989 under disputed circumstances.

In 1990, Neuhaus founded the Institute on Religion and Public Life, and its journal First Things, an ecumenical journal “whose purpose is to advance a religiously informed public philosophy for the ordering of society.”[8]

In the same year he converted and was received into the Roman Catholic Church on September 8, 1990.[9] Neuhaus had belonged to and was ordained in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod,[10] the conservative wing of American Lutheranism. He subsequently had joined the American Lutheran Church, a predecessor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. A year after his conversion, he was ordained by John Cardinal O’Connor as a priest of the Archdiocese of New York. He was a commentator for the Catholic television network EWTN during the funeral of Pope John Paul II and the election of Pope Benedict XVI.

In recent years he compared the pro-life struggle to the civil rights movement of the Sixties. During the 2004 Presidential campaign he was a leading advocate for denying Communion to Catholic politicians who supported abortion and voted against Church teaching on life issues. It was a mistake, he declared, to isolate abortion “from other issues of the sacredness of life”[11]

He promoted ecumenical dialogue and social conservatism. Along with Charles Colson, he edited Evangelicals and Catholics Together: Toward a Common Mission.[12] This ecumenical manifesto sparked much debate; some Catholics and Evangelicals claimed that Neuhaus and Colson had compromised major doctrines to promote a neoconservative agenda and had unfairly demanded that both branches of Christianity stop trying to convert the other’s members.

Neuhaus expressed a strong hope in universal salvation, but stopped short of teaching it as a doctrine, emphasizing it as a hope, not a belief. “In sum: we do not know; only God knows; but we may hope.” He wrote:

that absolutely no one is beyond the reach of God’s love in Christ. All are found, and therefore are not lost. That some may choose not to accept the gift of being found is quite another matter. We pray and hope that all will accept the gift of salvation that is most surely available to all. At least for Catholics, the teaching is definitive: God denies no one the grace necessary for salvation.[13]

Similar to Cormac Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor Neuhaus said that it cannot be known if hell is populated by anyone.[13]

A close, yet unofficial, advisor of President George W. Bush, Neuhaus advised Bush, who called him “Father Richard”, on a range of religious and ethical matters, including abortion, stem-cell research, cloning, and the defense of marriage amendment.[14] In 2005, under the heading of “Bushism Made Catholic” Neuhaus was named one of the “25 Most Influential Evangelicals in America” by Time Magazine:[14]

That sucks. Especially as First Things had a good post recently by a Jesuit who tore Beck apart over the social justice issue.
I reckoned at the time it might actually be what it claims: ecumenical.
Not so.
Also publishing Hoft is proof it’s wingnut.