After the passing of Ambassador Michael Novak on Friday, February 17, The Catholic Thing published a tribute to him, authored by Hadley Arkes, Michael Pakaluk, and Robert Royal.  These three deeply personal accounts were published together under the title, "Remembering Michael Novak."   "Henry James once described a scene in Rome at dusk in St. Peter’s Square, with the vast spread of hawkers, vibrant with conversation and play, and he remarked that the spectacle was as broad and unbounded as this great Church itself, 'which had no small pruderies to enforce.' Michael Novak was as boundless in his reach as that Church in which he was raised and nourished – and which he was able, in his later years, to counsel and instruct in turn. He has filled the world with his teachings, as he filled the lives of his friends with his learning and love."   "He was a wounded teacher. He carried with him wounds of love, for his dear departed wife, Karen. 'Not a day went by when he didn’t proclaim to everyone who would listen the beauty, joyfulness, and virtue of his late wife, Karen Laub-Novak,' a student wrote. This love infused itself into all his relations with colleagues and students. In the classroom, he would above all want to teach about charity. This was the theme that made him most animated, most impassioned."   Read all three tributes here.