Author: Deal Hudson
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Sed Contra: John Paul the Great
Deal W. Hudson November 1, 1997 It has been a great privilege to edit the pages that follow. Imagine having dozens of reflections on our Holy Father, written by the best Catholic minds of our age, with which to arrange a fitting tribute to this Man of the Century. We at Crisis dedicate this issue…
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Sed Contra: That Privacy Thing
Deal W. Hudson November 1, 1998 The Bible says that in the last days our sins will be shouted from the rooftops. Well, a millennium of sorts has already arrived for some Washington politicians, both friend, and foe. The brave new world of the media, fed relentlessly by the Internet and 24-hour cable news, has…
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Sed Contra: Notes Toward Unity
Deal W. Hudson October 1, 1998 Crisis has applauded the pope’s efforts to promote unity in the Church, his attempt to overcome divisions in the Body of Christ. To Orthodox, Jews, Protestants, to Catholics on the right and left, he has reached out, and his efforts, while not always successful, have born great fruit. How…
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Sed Contra: Of (Cloned) Mice and Men
Deal W. Hudson September 1, 1998 Dr. Bernard Nathanson recently addressed a riveted audience of the Philadelphia Legatus Chapter on a subject we all need to think more about—genetic research. It was clear, by the time he was through, that Catholic moral theology is already facing its greatest challenge since the advent of the pill.…
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Ted Forstmann: On Philanthropy, Politics, and Religion
Deal W. Hudson June 1, 1998 In multimillionaire investor Ted Forstmann we meet a man, a Catholic, who has become one of this nation’s leading philanthropists and who may be poised to head an educational revolution. As founding chairman of Empower American, a conservative grassroots organization whose Washington, D.C. offices are home to Bill Bennett…
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Sed Contra: Court TV USA
Deal W. Hudson May 1, 1998 If you were a classroom teacher during the ’70s and ’80s, like I was, you probably noticed how students were adopting talk-show manners. The intensity of feeling, not a logical inference, was treated as the surest criterion of truth. To protect these privileged feelings, the font of wisdom, self-esteem…
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Sed Contra: Il Papa!
Deal W. Hudson April 1, 1998 I never thought I would be part of a cheering, waving crowd. After all, I was too old, too sophisticated. Then John Paul II walked out on the stage. It was his Wednesday public audience, and together with my family and six friends, I sat only a few rows…
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Sed Contra: Hard Questions from the Playground
Deal W. Hudson March 1, 1998 I had just ventured into the Caribbean with ninety Crisis readers when the Clinton sex scandal hit the headlines. Even at a far distance, it was clear that the story was steering the media discussion into vulgar waters. I hoped my nine-year-old daughter would avoid hearing about Oval Office…
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Publisher’s Foreword: Education Crossroads
Deal W. Hudson February 1, 1998 What Follows in these pages is an ecumenical initiative of Crisis magazine and the Morley Institute to address what can be called nothing less than the “Crisis in education.” The opinions collected here demonstrate, in the spirit of John Paul II’s Ut Unum Sint, that people of good will…
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Sed Contra: A Dose of Sacred Discontent
Deal W. Hudson January 1, 1998 Thus we begin 1998, declared by our Holy Father as the year of the Holy Spirit. Surely, on this, the 25th anniversary of Roe v. Wade this country could use a strong infusion of that least understood person of the Blessed Trinity. There is no better way to get…
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