Category: Culture
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Sed Contra: The Bright Future
Deal W. Hudson July 1, 1997 Anyone who thinks the Church in America is in danger should spend a few weeks with me on the road. In the past few months, I have witnessed many many instances of renewed vitality among Catholics. Emerging out of this remarkable growth is a new alignment among orthodox Catholics,…
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Miracle at Miramax
Deal W. Hudson July 1, 1997 Just when you think that nothing good can come out of Miramax, it comes up with this gem of a movie, Wide Awake. This story of Joshua (Joseph Cross), a ten-year-old boy who searches for God in a Catholic boys school in suburban Philadelphia, is breathtaking in its directness…
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Sed Contra: Fifteen Years and Counting
Deal W. Hudson September 1, 1997 Fifteen years have passed since Ralph McInerny and Michael Novak gave birth to Crisis. Their investment of a few thousand dollars gave the Church a new and lasting voice. What began as Catholicism in Crisis, a cry of protest against the liberal Catholic establishment grew into a multifaceted movement…
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Sed Contra: The Slumbering Giant
Deal W. Hudson October 1, 1997 Archbishop Oscar Lipscomb of Mobile recently told a story that should be treated as a parable for Catholics in America. His Excellency attended a local banquet as a guest of honor and, appropriately, was seated in everyone’s view on the dais. As the jokes of the after-dinner speakers grew…
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Sed Contra: That Privacy Thing
Deal W. Hudson November 1, 1998 The Bible says that in the last days our sins will be shouted from the rooftops. Well, a millennium of sorts has already arrived for some Washington politicians, both friend, and foe. The brave new world of the media, fed relentlessly by the Internet and 24-hour cable news, has…
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Sed Contra: Notes Toward Unity
Deal W. Hudson October 1, 1998 Crisis has applauded the pope’s efforts to promote unity in the Church, his attempt to overcome divisions in the Body of Christ. To Orthodox, Jews, Protestants, to Catholics on the right and left, he has reached out, and his efforts, while not always successful, have born great fruit. How…
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Sed Contra: Of (Cloned) Mice and Men
Deal W. Hudson September 1, 1998 Dr. Bernard Nathanson recently addressed a riveted audience of the Philadelphia Legatus Chapter on a subject we all need to think more about—genetic research. It was clear, by the time he was through, that Catholic moral theology is already facing its greatest challenge since the advent of the pill.…
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Ted Forstmann: On Philanthropy, Politics, and Religion
Deal W. Hudson June 1, 1998 In multimillionaire investor Ted Forstmann we meet a man, a Catholic, who has become one of this nation’s leading philanthropists and who may be poised to head an educational revolution. As founding chairman of Empower American, a conservative grassroots organization whose Washington, D.C. offices are home to Bill Bennett…
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Sed Contra: Court TV USA
Deal W. Hudson May 1, 1998 If you were a classroom teacher during the ’70s and ’80s, like I was, you probably noticed how students were adopting talk-show manners. The intensity of feeling, not a logical inference, was treated as the surest criterion of truth. To protect these privileged feelings, the font of wisdom, self-esteem…
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Sed Contra: Il Papa!
Deal W. Hudson April 1, 1998 I never thought I would be part of a cheering, waving crowd. After all, I was too old, too sophisticated. Then John Paul II walked out on the stage. It was his Wednesday public audience, and together with my family and six friends, I sat only a few rows…
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