Category: Bishops
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Homosexuality and the Synod on the Family
Deal W. Hudson October 5, 2015 The Ordinary Synod of the Bishops on the Family opened today to address the theme of “The vocation and mission of the family in the Church and the modern world.” The world’s media will be watching the bishops very closely, expecting them to ratify “changes” to the Church’s teaching on…
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Archbishop Wenski Corrects a Fellow Bishop
Deal W. Hudson June 26, 2016 From Catholic Culture: Cardinal Thomas Wenski did what bishops rarely do, very rarely. He responded critically to the comments of Bishop Robert N. Lynch of St. Petersburg who said of the Orlando shootings: “Second, sadly it is religion, including our own, which targets, mostly verbally, and also often breeds contempt for…
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The Major Confusion of Catholic Voters – When a Catholic Can Differ With the Bishops
Deal W. Hudson July 5, 2016 Catholic voters remain deeply confused about when they are morally obligated to vote as their Bishop or Pope teaches, and when they don’t. The reason is simple: Catholic voters are unaware of the distinction between the handful of issues that are “settled” or “non-negotiable,” and those that are not, meaning…
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A Letter From the Archdiocese of Philadelphia Regarding a Column I Wrote
Deal W. Hudson August 23, 2016 The following is a letter to me from Kevin Gavin, Director of Communications for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. I asked his permission to publish it here, which he kindly gave. Dear Deal, I read your recent commentary published by The Christian Review on Monday and was deeply concerned. We’re certainly all…
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Another Bishop Addresses the Election and Sows Confusion
Deal W. Hudson September 11, 2016 Bishop Edward B. Scharfenberger of Albany has published a column on the election, “We hold these truths: On the founders of our country and today’s Catholic voters.” I must admit my expectations were set very low when I read the first line, “A surefire way of demonstrating the existence of…
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A Texas Archbishop Slaps Down “Catholics” for Choice!
Deal W. Hudson September 13, 2016 Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller, M.Sp.S. of San Antonio has shown the kind of leadership so badly needed in this election season. When the oxymoronic Catholics of Choice published an advertisement in the San Antonio newspaper (September 12), Archbishop Garcia-Siller answered with the following broadside. This statement has the ring of a…
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A Bishop Who Proclaims Life Really Matters In the Coming Election
Deal W. Hudson September 14, 2016 Bishop Joseph E. Strickland of Tyler, TX writes on “The Absurdity of Catholics for Choice” (September 13, 2016). You gotta love that title who meaning is crystal clear and allows for zero spins. Not a single sentence in the text of the Bishop’s statement can be spun, especially this…
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Some Bishops Deceive Catholic Voters on Clinton and Trump Abortion Views (Corrected)
Deal W. Hudson September 20, 2016 Yesterday, I stated that the document, “Know the Positions of the Presidential Candidates,” was a product of the USCCB. Today I received a message, friendly, from someone I know at the USCCB who told me the document did not originate with the USCCB, and that the “State Catholic conferences act…
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Bishop Robert McElroy Urges Catholics to “All Become Disrupters”
Deal W. Hudson February 20, 2017 In the column written for NEWSMAX, I report on the U.S. Regional World Meeting of Popular Movements, held February 16-19 in Modesto, CA. Towards the end I call upon the USCCB, a sponsor of the conference, to publicly distance itself from the call of Bishop McElroy towards the violence of “disruption.”…
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Preparing Catholics for the 2016 Election
In May 2016, I gave a speech to a group of Catholic activists in Cincinnati, Ohio, gathered together by Priests for Life, on how Catholics could make THE difference in the upcoming presidential election. I specifically outlined the ways the institutional Church would try to oppose Catholic efforts on behalf of the pro-life cause. What…
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