Category: Church
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Selling Obama as a Pro-Life Candidate
Deal W. Hudson October 2, 2008 Just when this presidential election could not get any stranger, David Brody reports the launching of a “Pro-Life Pro-Obama” Web site. When is the “John McCain, Pacifist” Website going to show up? The effort to sell Obama as a pro-life candidate is being spearheaded by a group called the Matthew 25…
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Praying the Rosary for the Election
Deal W. Hudson October 7, 2008 “I would exhort people to say the rosary every day for life and for the success of the election.” These are the words of Anthony Cardinal Bevilacqua, the retired archbishop of Philadelphia. When I spoke to him yesterday, the cardinal emphasized that he neither spoke officially for the archdiocese…
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Will the Church Split Along Red and Blue Lines?
Deal W. Hudson October 9, 2008 An Obama victory on November 4 is far from certain, but the momentum behind his campaign prompts me to wonder: What impact could an Obama administration have on the Catholic Church? The Bush victories in 2000 and 2004 brought a flood of commentary on the so-called red and blue states. If…
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Last Safe Haven for Iraqi Christians Taken by Al-Qaeda
Deal W. Hudson October 13, 2008 “Now the last safe haven for Christians is gone,” said Canon Andrew White, the vicar of St. George’s church in Baghdad. During the past week, twelve Christians have been killed and more than 3,000 have left the city of Mosul, once considered a safe zone for persecuted Iraqi Christians.…
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Money – Making It, Spending It, And Giving It Away
Deal W. Hudson October 24, 2008 Frank J. Hanna III has become one of the leading Catholic philanthropists in the nation. His Solidarity Foundation recently obtained the oldest extant copy of portions of the Gospels of Luke and John and presented them to Pope Benedict XVI for the Vatican Library. A merchant banker in Atlanta,…
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Texas Bishops Face Protests from Pro-Abortion Catholics
Deal W. Hudson October 27, 2008 When is the last time a bishop’s statement on abortion resulted in several days of protest from pro-abortion Catholics? The joint statement issued last Friday by Bishop Kevin Vann of Fort Worth and Bishop Kevin Farrell of Dallas has done just that. No doubt the forceful clarity of the bishops’ message…
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What Are We Doing?
Deal W. Hudson October 27, 2008 Last night, the Archdiocese of New York held its famous Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, with both Senators John McCain and Barack Obama as guests. I watched the coverage today – the story is all over the news, along with images of Obama and Edward Cardinal Egan sharing…
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Will “Faithful Citizenship” Win the Catholic Vote For Obama?
Deal W. Hudson October 28, 2008 If Obama wins on November 4 with the help of Catholic voters, the biggest factor in his favor will be the bishops’ own document and Web site, “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship.” I never thought it likely that Catholic voters could be persuaded to support a candidate with both the…
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Is a Split in the GOP Inevitable?
Deal W. Hudson October 31, 2008 As I write this, Sen. John McCain is edging closer to Sen. Barack Obama in the national polls. Whether this will translate into enough votes to win battleground states like Pennsylvania, Florida, and Ohio is still a long shot. But whatever happens on November 4, a major shake-up in the…
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Why I Will Vote for John McCain
Deal W. Hudson November 4, 2008 My support this election for John McCain has been no secret, as regular readers know. But while I’ve offered my reasons here and there, I’ve never put them all together in a single piece. I try to do that now. Some of my case for McCain comes from agreeing…
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