Category: Culture
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Obama’s Political “Cloud of Unknowing”
Deal W. Hudson September 8, 2008 Appearing Sunday on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Sen. Barack Obama tried to undo the damage done by his Saddleback Church interview with Rick Warren – specifically his comment that the question of when an unborn child receives human rights was “above [his] pay grade.” “Was that phrase too flip?” Stephanopoulos asked Obama.…
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Taking the Time to Act Like Christians
Deal W. Hudson September 11, 2008 A few days ago I was asked to speak to a men’s group in Atlanta about Catholics in politics. As part of my presentation, I talked about the possibility of greater Catholic and Evangelical cooperation. To illustrate my point, I told the story about the reconciliation earlier this year…
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Creating a New Mt. Carmel… in America
Deal W. Hudson September 15, 2008 Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote about the “Last Carmelite Monks in America.” At the time, the eight Carmelites and their novices were overflowing their four-bedroom rectory in the mountains of northwest Wyoming. Since then, the monks’ numbers have grown quickly. By the end of the year, there will be…
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Obama Campaign Calls Abortion Survivor Story a “Despicable Lie”
Deal W. Hudson September 24, 2008 Gianna Jessen survived a saline abortion 31 years ago. “I didn’t have any burns anywhere on my body – it was amazing.” The saline, however, did leave Jessen with a mild case of cerebral palsy, a slight limp, and a life-long commitment to oppose abortion. Jessen is featured in…
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A Jesuit’s Case for Barack Obama
Deal W. Hudson September 28, 2008 A few days ago Rev. Ray Schroth, S.J., posted “Why This Priest Votes for Obama” on the NJ Voice blog. Father Schroth teaches humanities at St. Peter’s College and is presently working on a book about Rev. Robert Drinan, S.J. Father was careful in making his endorsement: “I do not say…
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Selling Obama as a Pro-Life Candidate
Deal W. Hudson October 2, 2008 Just when this presidential election could not get any stranger, David Brody reports the launching of a “Pro-Life Pro-Obama” Web site. When is the “John McCain, Pacifist” Website going to show up? The effort to sell Obama as a pro-life candidate is being spearheaded by a group called the Matthew 25…
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Praying the Rosary for the Election
Deal W. Hudson October 7, 2008 “I would exhort people to say the rosary every day for life and for the success of the election.” These are the words of Anthony Cardinal Bevilacqua, the retired archbishop of Philadelphia. When I spoke to him yesterday, the cardinal emphasized that he neither spoke officially for the archdiocese…
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Last Safe Haven for Iraqi Christians Taken by Al-Qaeda
Deal W. Hudson October 13, 2008 “Now the last safe haven for Christians is gone,” said Canon Andrew White, the vicar of St. George’s church in Baghdad. During the past week, twelve Christians have been killed and more than 3,000 have left the city of Mosul, once considered a safe zone for persecuted Iraqi Christians.…
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How Will History Judge Catholics in the 2008 Election?
Deal W. Hudson October 24, 2008 The Catholic Church is often accused of complicity in a variety of moral evils, including the institution of slavery, the rise of the Nazi Party, and even the horror of the Holocaust itself. Historians differ on the degree of blame properly assigned to Catholics. But they all agree on…
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Money – Making It, Spending It, And Giving It Away
Deal W. Hudson October 24, 2008 Frank J. Hanna III has become one of the leading Catholic philanthropists in the nation. His Solidarity Foundation recently obtained the oldest extant copy of portions of the Gospels of Luke and John and presented them to Pope Benedict XVI for the Vatican Library. A merchant banker in Atlanta,…
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