Category: Church
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Exposing the ‘Abortion Reduction’ Scam
Deal W. Hudson January 27, 2009 The centerpiece of Obama’s Catholic outreach in the recent election was the “abortion reduction” trope. This was the cover provided by Catholic supporters for some of the most pro-abortion politicians in U.S. history. Doug Johnson, legislative director of National Right to Life, has detailed its deceptions and misrepresentations. By ending the…
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Bishop Dismisses FOCA Threat to Catholic Hospitals
Deal W. Hudson February 2, 2009 A Catholic News Service (CNS) article on January 27 reported a comment by Bishop Robert Lynch of St. Petersburg, Florida, on the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA). Asked by CNS reporter Nancy Frazier O’Brien about FOCA, Bishop Lynch spoke against it but then tried to dismiss Catholic concerns about the impact…
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A Bishop in the Tradition of Cardinal O’Connor
Deal W. Hudson February 9, 2009 Recently I’ve begun to notice a resemblance between Scranton’s Bishop Joseph Francis Martino and another Philadelphia-born bishop, John Cardinal O’Connor. Bishop Martino is outspoken, and his direct, almost pugnacious, criticism is reminiscent of the late cardinal of New York. Both Martino and O’Connor attended St. Charles Borromeo Seminary before…
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Some Advice for Apostolates in a Time of Recession
Deal W. Hudson February 12, 2009 Chuck Piola has been called “The King of Cold Calls” by Inc. Magazine. In 1986, he and his business partner formed NCO Financial Systems. Over twelve years, NCO grew from sixty clients to 80,000; $70,000 in revenue to over a billion dollars annually; four employees to a staff of more…
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What the Pope Should Know about Nancy Pelosi
Deal W. Hudson February 16, 2009 This week, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) will meet with Pope Benedict XVI in the Vatican. With the debilitating illness of Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA), Pelosi has become the de facto leader of dissident Catholic members of Congress. It’s only appropriate that Pelosi should take Kennedy’s place. When she…
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A Catholic College Where the Students Sing (In Latin)
Deal W. Hudson February 23, 2009 Recently I had the chance to speak with Jeffrey J. Karls, president of Magdalen College in Warner, New Hampshire. Like many people, I had a few misconceptions about the school. After speaking with him and getting the facts, I thought it would be nice to turn our conversation into an…
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Do the Nebraska Bishops Want Open Borders?
Deal W. Hudson February 26, 2009 Early in the morning of December 12, 2006, 25 unmarked cars filled with federal agents pulled up in front of the Swift & Co. plant in Grand Island, Nebraska, to arrest illegal immigrants. “Operation Wagon Train” was part of a six-state effort to crack down on Swift, which was…
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Obama’s Choice of Sebelius Heats Up the Pro-life Battle
Deal W. Hudson March 2, 2009 President Barack Obama has selected a pro-abortion Catholic governor, who has been told by her bishop not to present herself for communion, to head the Department of Health and Human Services. Writing last year in his diocesan newspaper, Bishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, discussed a meeting with Gov. Kathleen Sebelius…
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The Trial of Kathleen Sebelius
Deal W. Hudson March 16, 2009 Late-term abortionist Dr. George Tiller will stand trial in Wichita beginning today, charged with 19 misdemeanor counts of failing to obtain a mandatory second, independent physician’s opinion to performing a late-term abortion. Tiller is accused of having a financial relationship with his partnered physician, Dr. Ann Kristin Neuhaus, who provided the second opinions.…
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Notre Dame’s President at a Crossroads
Deal W. Hudson March 23, 2009 For the past few years, the buzz about Rev. John I. Jenkins, the president of Notre Dame since 2005, has been very positive. In spite of his refusal to ban The Vagina Monologues from the campus, Father Jenkins was viewed as strengthening the Catholic identity of the nation’s most beloved Catholic institution. But with…
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