Category: Church
-
Why Christians Are Leaving the Holy Land
Deal W. Hudson Published April 28, 2008 Catholics in the United States have been slow to grasp the problems facing Christians living in the Holy Land. Many Catholics don’t even know they are there, or that they are Arab Christians. Most Americans equate Arabs with Muslims, in spite of the fact that Arabs were Christians…
-
Reading Myself Into the Church
Deal W. Hudson Reading, said Saint Josemaría Escrivá, has made many a saint. In my own case it has merely made a convert, but has led me more deeply into the mystery that is the Church. Thomas Merton, we recall from his autobiography, Seven Storey Mountain, was started on his road to the Church by…
-
Why the Wise Men Followed the Star
Deal W. Hudson Wise men have always looked at the heavens with wonder. For them, the night sky filled with stars represents the luminous, the utterly ineffable, the holy. With this sense of overwhelming awe, comes a question: “What lies behind it all?” Wise men don’t ignore this question by burying themselves in practical matters,…
-
The Wounded Irish Church
Deal W. Hudson Published December 3, 2009 The responsory at today’s Mass was especially appropriate: “The Lord is coming and will not delay; He will bring every hidden thing to light and reveal himself to every nation.” Sadness and anger pervades Ireland this first week of Advent. The release of the massive Murphy Report revealed…
-
John Paul the Great
Deal W. Hudson Published The Catholic Church in 1978 was marked by confusion and conflict. In October of that year, the conclave voted and gave us Pope John Paul II. More than 26 years later there are two dominant views of his papacy. One argues that he renewed the Church and saved it from dissent…
-
“Put Out Into the Deep’ and Vote!
Deal Hudson Published November 6, 2012 We as Roman Catholics need to put out into the deep. We love the child in the womb. We love the child who is poor, and we love the child who is sick, because of her great dignity and sanctity. After all, what Christ calls us to build is…
-
Bishop Robert F. Vasa — We Need More Like Him!
Deal W. Hudson Published August 16, 2010 Too often, Catholic commentators, including myself, speak about American bishops in the plural. The existence of a national bishops’ conference unfortunately encourages this habit, one that obscures a basic fact about the Catholic Church: It is individual bishops who are responsible for sanctifying the lives of the Catholic…
Deal W. Hudson 