Category: Church
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Catholic Bishops Must Change Health Care Strategy
Deal W. Hudson March 11, 2010 The lobbying strategy of the Catholic bishops in the health-care debate thus far has been one of qualified support. We support the health-care reform bill, the bishops argue, as long as it does not contain abortion funding and provides conscience protection for health-care workers. The only help the bishops…
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The Failure of the Bishops’ Healthcare Bill Strategy
Deal W. Hudson March 15, 2010 The Catholic Health Association (CHA), a lobbying group for Catholic hospitals, has offered its support for the health-care bill as it currently stands. A statement from CHA president Sr. Carol Keehan expresses “concern on life issues” while underscoring the bill’s requirement that “a separate check” would have to be written for…
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Bart Stupak Failed Us
Deal W. Hudson March 22, 2010 We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men The evening the Stupak-Pitts Amendment passed, I expressed the hope that a new era of pro-life politics had begun. For the first time in a long time, the Democratic Party had an advocate for the unborn around whom others could rally.…
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Why Catholics Should Work to Repeal the Health Care Bill
Deal W. Hudson March 29, 2010 There are only two facts Catholics need to know about the health-care bill to decide it must be repealed: The bill signed by the president includes federal funding for abortion, and the executive order does nothing to remove that funding. You don’t have to accept those facts on my…
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Too Many Catholics on the Supreme Court?
Deal W. Hudson April 11, 2010 With the upcoming retirement of Justice John Paul Stevens, the media have once again started counting the number of Catholics on the Supreme Court. A recent headline in the New York Times announced, “Stevens, the Only Protestant on the Supreme Court.” Well, so what? The Times article notes that Stevens’ retirement raises the possibility that the next Court…
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Seven Ways the Bishops Should Respond to Sex Abuse
Deal W. Hudson April 15, 2010 To rebuild the trust of U.S. Catholics in the Church and its leaders and to make reparations to the victims left in the wake of this scandal, the bishops need to address several points: 1. The bishops should make clear that this is a crisis and that they are…
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The Ongoing Saga of the Priest Sex Abuse Scandal
Deal W. Hudson April 19, 2010 In October 2001, crisis Magazine published an article, titled “The High Price of Priestly Pederasty,” by Dan Michalski. Reporting on publicly known cases of sex abuse by priests, Michalski summarized his findings: So far, more than 3,000 Catholic priests in America have been accused of sexual misconduct with minors, and nearly…
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Remember the Palestinians
Deal W. Hudson May 3, 2010 The Holy Land is a place of stories. Everyone has a story about Israel and the occupied territory called Palestine by those who live there. Many of the events are drenched in blood – often that of relatives present or past – which is why, when the story is…
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Sr. Carol Keehan Misrepresents Her Support of the Health-Care Bill
Deal W. Hudson May 9, 2010 Sr. Carol Keehan responded to the standing ovation she received at a gathering of Obama’s Catholic coalition by making a very strange claim about her support of the recent health-care legislation signed by President Barack Obama. “We were in complete accord with our bishops and our church that abortion is a grave evil.…
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The Coming Anti-Catholic Storm
Deal W. Hudson June 7, 2010 Some will say it’s already here, and I wouldn’t argue with them. The first gusts of the anti-Catholic storm have already been resisted, thanks to the courageous vigilance of Bill Donohue at the Catholic League. Now we have The New York Times‘ relentless barrage of reporting and opinion designed to…
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