Category: CatholiCity 2009
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Playing the Race Card and the Sin of Slander
Deal W. Hudson September 17, 2009 On Tuesday, former president Jimmy Carter told NBC Nightly News, “I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he’s African-American.” I have some questions for Carter: On what grounds do you label…
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Charity, Civility, and Speaking the Truth
Deal W. Hudson September 21, 2009 The funeral of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy provoked a highly charged debate among Catholics about civility. In the midst of this discussion, Archbishop Raymond L. Burke, the prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, came to Washington, D.C., to be honored by InsideCatholic.com at its 14th…
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Divine Mercy Care
Deal W. Hudson October 5, 2009 “Put us head to head with any Planned Parenthood clinic, and people will choose us.” Dr. John Bruchalski, an OB/GYN in Fairfax, Virginia, told me how his Divine Mercy Care organization can transform national health care. DMC presently consists of an obstetrics and gynecology facility, the Tepeyac Family Center, and the DMC…
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Why A “Public Option” Will Lead to Abortion Coverage
Deal W. Hudson October 12, 2009 This week, the Senate Finance Committee is scheduled to vote on the health-care bill. If it passes, the Finance bill will be reconciled with the bill already passed by the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. Then health-care reform will go to the Senate floor for a vote. The Finance Committee…
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Obama’s Nominee for EEOC Promotes Polygamy and Homosexuality
Deal W. Hudson October 20, 2009 President Barack Obama has nominated a Georgetown University law professor, Chai R. Feldblum, to the Equal Employment Opportunity Council. Feldblum, a lesbian activist lawyer, formerly worked for the American Civil Liberties Union, the Human Rights Campaign Fund, and in the mid-1980s clerked for Justice Harry A. Blackmun, the author of Roe v.…
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The Stupid Party May Learn a Lesson in Upstate New York
Deal W. Hudson October 22, 2009 A special election will be held on November 3 in upstate New York that may send a much-needed message to the GOP. New York Congressional District 23 was put up for grabs when nine-term Rep. John McHugh, a Republican, resigned to become Secretary of the Army. The eleven Republican chairs of…
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USCCB Partners an Effort to Investigate Rush Limbaugh’s “Hate Speech”
Deal W. Hudson October 26, 2009 In an important article for the American Spectator, Jeffrey Lord describes the effort of “So We Might See” – “a national inter-faith coalition for media justice,” according to its Web site – to force a Federal Communications Commission investigation of conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh. The organization’s petition to FCC chairman Julius Genachowski…
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USCCB Clarifies Its Position on the Regulation of Hate Speech
Deal W. Hudson October 29, 2009 This past Monday I reported that the USCCB Department of Communications is listed as a “principal partner” on the “So We Might See” Web site. So We Might See is a coalition of religious groups that are petitioning the Federal Communications Commission to investigate “hate speech.” Since the page on the…
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Bethlehem University Student Deported to Gaza
Deal W. Hudson November 2, 2009 Berlanty (Betty) Azzam was two months away from receiving her business degree at Bethlehem University. Anticipating life beyond college, she made the two-hour trip to Ramallah for a job interview, but on the way back she was asked for her papers at the “container” checkpoint. Azzam was detained by the…
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A New Grassroots Political Organization Makes Its Mark
Deal W. Hudson November 6, 2009 The election results of November 2 were not merely the spontaneous reaction of Republicans to the bad economy and liberal excesses of the Obama administration. The four pro-life, conservative GOP candidates in Virginia and New Jersey were elected in a groundswell of religious and social conservatives, many of them…
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