Category: Church
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Sed Contra: Letter to Warren
Deal W. Hudson March 1, 1997 Dear Warren: Your letter telling me of your decision not to renew your subscription to aims raises several important issues I want to address. I am doing this publicly, with your permission, because you probably represent other Crisis readers who wonder why, as you put it, we spend “all…
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Sed Contra: No Quick Fixes
Deal W. Hudson April 1, 1997 It was kind of Commonweal to invite me to a discussion of the Common Ground Project. We gathered at Fordham’s Law School, representing a wide spectrum of Catholic opinion—the editors of Crisis, America, National Catholic Reporter, Commonweal, and National Catholic Register. Here was an unprecedented opportunity to address our…
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Sed Contra: The Bright Future
Deal W. Hudson July 1, 1997 Anyone who thinks the Church in America is in danger should spend a few weeks with me on the road. In the past few months, I have witnessed many many instances of renewed vitality among Catholics. Emerging out of this remarkable growth is a new alignment among orthodox Catholics,…
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Miracle at Miramax
Deal W. Hudson July 1, 1997 Just when you think that nothing good can come out of Miramax, it comes up with this gem of a movie, Wide Awake. This story of Joshua (Joseph Cross), a ten-year-old boy who searches for God in a Catholic boys school in suburban Philadelphia, is breathtaking in its directness…
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Sed Contra: Fifteen Years and Counting
Deal W. Hudson September 1, 1997 Fifteen years have passed since Ralph McInerny and Michael Novak gave birth to Crisis. Their investment of a few thousand dollars gave the Church a new and lasting voice. What began as Catholicism in Crisis, a cry of protest against the liberal Catholic establishment grew into a multifaceted movement…
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Sed Contra: The Slumbering Giant
Deal W. Hudson October 1, 1997 Archbishop Oscar Lipscomb of Mobile recently told a story that should be treated as a parable for Catholics in America. His Excellency attended a local banquet as a guest of honor and, appropriately, was seated in everyone’s view on the dais. As the jokes of the after-dinner speakers grew…
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Sed Contra: John Paul the Great
Deal W. Hudson November 1, 1997 It has been a great privilege to edit the pages that follow. Imagine having dozens of reflections on our Holy Father, written by the best Catholic minds of our age, with which to arrange a fitting tribute to this Man of the Century. We at Crisis dedicate this issue…
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Sed Contra: That Privacy Thing
Deal W. Hudson November 1, 1998 The Bible says that in the last days our sins will be shouted from the rooftops. Well, a millennium of sorts has already arrived for some Washington politicians, both friend, and foe. The brave new world of the media, fed relentlessly by the Internet and 24-hour cable news, has…
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Sed Contra: Of (Cloned) Mice and Men
Deal W. Hudson September 1, 1998 Dr. Bernard Nathanson recently addressed a riveted audience of the Philadelphia Legatus Chapter on a subject we all need to think more about—genetic research. It was clear, by the time he was through, that Catholic moral theology is already facing its greatest challenge since the advent of the pill.…
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Ted Forstmann: On Philanthropy, Politics, and Religion
Deal W. Hudson June 1, 1998 In multimillionaire investor Ted Forstmann we meet a man, a Catholic, who has become one of this nation’s leading philanthropists and who may be poised to head an educational revolution. As founding chairman of Empower American, a conservative grassroots organization whose Washington, D.C. offices are home to Bill Bennett…
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