Category: Church
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The Christian Review — A Guide to Readers and Writers
Deal W. Hudson Published December 20, 2014 We’ve received much positive feedback over the past few days since the launch of The Christian Review, including a number of inquiries from potential contributors. The “more the merrier” is our attitude toward both writers and readers. Rather than publishing a style sheet or mission statement, we offer…
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Why Should the Church Continue to Perform Marriages for the State?
Deal W. Hudson Published January 2015 We take for granted that priests, and other ministers, sign a couple’s marriage license after a wedding ceremony. At that moment the state, both the individual states and the United States, legally recognizes the marriage. Priests and ministers, thus, act as agents of the government and are duly recognized…
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Sigrid Undset: One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church
Editor’s note: The Norwegian writer Sigrid Undset (1882-1949) is best known for her trilogy Kristin Lavransdatter published between 1920 and 1922. Undset would win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1924 while her many novels, memoirs, hagiographies, and miscellaneous works would make her a major figure in world literature. The same year she was honored with…
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Meeting Mother Angelica
Deal W. Hudson Published December 1, 19995 She walks so slowly on her crutches she seems fragile, an impression that doesn’t last for very long. Mother Angelica is made of something as tough as the steel she leans on. This Poor Clare nun from Ohio has single-handedly built a multimillion-dollar television and radio complex on…
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Why Does the Media Hate the Church?
Deal W. Hudson Published March 31, 2010 It’s sad to watch the New York Times and the Washington Post, along with MSNBC, attack Benedict XVI. The story they concocted over the past few weeks, with the help of retired Bishop Rembert Weakland about Rev. Joseph Murphy, is risibly tenuous. These once-great newspapers trivialize themselves by…
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‘The Right Is Mean, and the Left Is Foul’
Deal W. Hudson Published April 2, 2009 The rising temperature of the debate over President Barack Obama’s scheduled visit to Notre Dame has created some heated rhetoric on both sides. Bishop Robert Lynch of St. Petersburg criticized Notre Dame’s decision but was himself criticized for complaining about the “uncivil and venomous” comments made by those…
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Canadian Priest Accuses Pro-Lifers of Hatred and Bullying
Deal W. Hudson Published September 14, 2009 One of Canada’s best-known priests, Rev. Thomas Rosica, CSB, has describedthe pro-life critics of the Kennedy funeral as “not agents of life, but of division, destruction, hatred, vitriol, judgment, and violence.” Father Rosica is CEO of a Catholic Canadian television network – Salt + Light, endorsed by the Canadian…
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Public Lynching of the Priesthood
Deal W. Hudson Let me ask you a question: Do you really think that the media, and The Boston Globe in particular, are really interested in strengthening the Church? I think we all know the answer to that. It should be very clear from the coverage of this scandal that the real object of the…
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What Cradle Catholics Take for Granted
Deal W. Hudson Our Holy Father, John Paul II, has called us to participate in the new evangelization of the Catholic Church. These very personal remarks are offered in the spirit of that evangelism. Perhaps hearing from someone who discovered the Church for the first time as an adult will be helpful to those who…
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Unicorns in the Toybox
Deal W. Hudson A friend of mind, a cradle Catholic who doubts her faith, asked what she should teach her four-year old about religion. “Everything,” I said, “Heaven, Hell, God, Angels, Sin, Grace, Forgiveness, don’t leave anything out.” “How can I do that,” she responded “When I’m not sure myself.” Such attempts at parental honesty…
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