Category: Church
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The Catholic Church Doesn’t Really Care About Abortion
Deal W. Hudson August 15, 2016 Here we are, in the midst of a presidential election pitting an avowed abortion advocate against an avowed pro-life candidate. Making the choice between them starker, Hillary Clinton has chosen a pro-abortion Catholic, Sen. Tim Kaine, while Donald Trump picked pro-life Gov. Mike Pence. To make matters even starker,…
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The Four Loopholes in the Bishop’s Political Guidance
Deal W. Hudson August 18, 2016 Every four years the Catholic bishops publish a document entitled “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship.” This document represents the official guidance given to Catholic voters in a national election. In my opinion, “Forming Consciences” is seriously flawed, offering four loopholes allowing Catholics to look away from candidates who support…
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Have Our Shepherds Been Blown to the Ground?
Deal W. Hudson August 29, 2016 And when they went their way, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John: What went you out into the desert to see? a reed is shaken with the wind? (Matthew 11.7) In earlier columns, I’ve expressed concerns about the moral leadership of the Catholic Church during this presidential…
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Marion Montgomery’s Prophetic Critique of the American “Popular Spirit”
Deal W. Hudson December 5, 2016 Readers of The Christian Review may already be familiar with the name Marion Montgomery (1925-2011). During his 30 years as a professor at the University of Georgia, Montgomery published articles regularly in Modern Age, Hillsdale Review, This World, Chronicles, and Crisis Magazine. But the growth of Montgomery’s reputation was spurred greatly by the publication in the early…
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What’s Wrong With the Church? Why Our Labels Fail.
Deal W. Hudson April 21, 2017 Is there any label, or set of labels, that describe what’s influencing our Church in the wrong direction? I became aware of this question while planning a future conference with some friends. When they began using terms such as Modernism, Marxism, Socialism, Globalism, Internationalism, and Secularism, I demurred. These…
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Why Are the Knights of Columbus “Partners” with Crux?
Deal W. Hudson August 4, 2017 John L. Allen Jr’s news website Crux (www.cruxnow.com) bears the subtitle, “Taking the Catholic Pulse.” Crux was formerly hosted by the Boston Herald at its founding in 2014 but was dropped two years later. Crux was saved by none other than a “partnership” with the mega-philanthropic Knights of Columbus, headed by Supreme Knight…
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The Catholic King Who Supported the Muslim Invasion of Europe
Deal W. Hudson February 5, 2018 That Catholic king was Francis I who in the 16th century openly sided with Suleiman the Magnificent in his Muslim wars on Christians in Eastern Europe. The reason was simple, as explained by historian John Julius Norwich in Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis 1, Charles V, and Suleiman the Magnificent…
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Holy Land Religious Leaders claim, “POLITICAL PERSECUTION LEADS TO THE CLOSURE OF CHRISTIANITY’S HOLIEST SITE”
Deal W. Hudson February 27, 2018 The following is a press release and statement from THEOPHILOS III, Patriarch of Jerusalem; FRANCESCO PATTON, Custos of the Holy Land; NOURHAN MANOUGIAN, Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem regarding their decision to close the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to protest Israel’s taxation of Church property. Readers should be aware that…
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Pope Francis Gives the Democrats a Gift — But It Won’t Work
Deal W. Hudson April 11, 2018 Writing for NEWSMAX, I explained why Pope Francis’s recent attempt to set abortion and immigration on the equal moral ground cannot be rationally defended. Yes, they have the principle of ‘loving thy neighbor’ in common, but they are distinctly different kinds of moral judgments. Pope Francis get’s it. He…
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A Baptist Minister Becomes Catholic
This is my appearance on “The Journey Home,” an EWTN program hosted by Marcus Grodi, a marvelous fellow, by the way. The description of my appearance on the network website was as follows: As a child, Deal attended a Presbyterian Church at his mother’s promptings. In high school, after being witnessed to by a Southern…
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