Category: Christmas
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Bill Donohue Is Accused of Starting the Fight over Christmas
Deal W. Hudson December 20, 2010 I was putting together my list of “ten most laughable public attacks of 2010” when I received an e-mail newsletter from Chris Korzen and the team at Catholics United. Korzen’s letter – an attack on Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, and Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York – was…
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Sacred Music for Christmas
Deal W. Hudson December 5, 2014 At Christmas, music abounds. There is no other sacred day or holiday, so deeply intertwined with music. If you are considering stretching your musical palette this Christmas, here is a list to choose from. You may already know many of these pieces but you may not know the particular…
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Christmas 2014 — A Poem
Deal W. Hudson December 20, 2014 By Mary Jo Matthews (1927 — December 18, 2014) Oh, little town of Bethlehem, Do men still gaze above, Through bombs and smoke, To seek the Christmas star? Godless men defile their faith, Bestowed on them with love, Faith that guided the Magi, When they travelled from afar. Oh,…
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Eight Books for Christmas, from Politics and a Thriller to Paris, Moscow, Chartres, New York City, and My Back
Deal W. Hudson November 18, 2017 Several of these books I read as audiobooks, which in the case of those by Ali Land and Scott Isacoff simply added to their enjoyment. Nowadays, I probably read two audiobooks for every print book I read, the advantage of the former being their availability while driving and getting…
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Eight Recordings for Christmas — From Grand Mahler and Sacred Rachmaninov to Superlative Rozsa and a Requiem for Mothers
Deal W. Hudson November 19, 2017 In spite of habitually slow sales, in comparison to pop music, recordings of classical music continue to be released by the dozens each month, and some of them equal or supersede the best recordings of the past. Examples from this list are Brabbins’ performance of Vaughan Williams 2nd Symphony…
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10 Christmas Albums You May Not Know
Deal W. Hudson December 4, 2017 I chuckle at my use of “albums” given the remarkable comeback of vinyl recordings, though downloading is actually the medium gradually replacing the CD. Thus, I would advise the reader to check both CD and download formats for the recordings listed below (links to both, where available, are provided). I’ve…
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Why the Wise Men Followed the Star
Deal W. Hudson December 23, 2017 Wise men have always looked at the heavens with wonder. For them, the night sky filled with stars represents the luminous, the utterly ineffable, the holy. With this sense of overwhelming awe, comes a question: “What lies behind it all?” Wise men don’t ignore this question by burying themselves…
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100 Best Movies for Christmas
By Deal W. Hudson As with my list of Catholic novels, I am not following any rigid theory of the “Catholic film” in making these recommendations. Rather than advance a thesis about what constitutes an “authentic” or “orthodox” Catholic film, I’m hoping that you, the reader, will discover on this list some films that will…
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Christmas is for Children
Published December 1, 1997 DEAL W. HUDSON I heard our president on the radio this morning, announcing, “We must make sure that parents are able to spend time with their children whenever they can.” If the “we” had been the American people, not the government, then the comment was merely an obvious truism. Apparently, though,…
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Not Your Usual Christmas Gift Recommendations
Deal W. Hudson Published December 6, 2010 As I was thinking about making some recommendations for Christmas gift giving, I thought I would challenge my friends by asking them to send me only one item – the kind of thing, I said, “you grab running out of a burning house (after the family, of course).”…
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