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NEW YORK (AP) — The Rev. Richard John Neuhaus, a leading intellectual of the Christian right who helped build an influential coalition of conservative Protestants and Roman Catholics and informally advised President George W. Bush, died Thursday. He was 72.

Neuhaus died from the side effects of treatment for cancer, said Joseph Bottum, editor of First Things, the journal of religion and public policy that Neuhaus founded in New York.