Category: Culture
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Sed Contra: Investigating the Seminaries
Deal W. Hudson February 1, 2003 With a decision on a plenary council put indefinitely on hold, the next major step in addressing the causes of the sexual abuse crisis is the upcoming apostolic visitation to our nation’s Catholic seminaries. Questions will be asked—as they should be—about how much Catholics can trust that the seminaries…
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Sed Contra: Making Our Own Decisions
Deal W. Hudson March 1, 2003 Just over a month ago, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger issued a remarkable statement on Catholics and politics. Doctrinal Note on Some Questions Regarding the Participation of Catholics in Political Life clarified once again the problems of duplicity that emanate from a U.S. Congress where almost half of all Catholic senators…
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Sed Contra: I Don’t Get It
Deal W. Hudson April 1, 2003 For years the Vatican has been fighting the United Nations. Through its status as a full member of international conferences, the Holy See Mission to the UN has aggressively, but diplomatically, opposed the “population control” policies of the UN bureaucracy and its member nations. Led by the former UN…
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Music: Fourteen to Remember
Deal W. Hudson May 1, 2003 Robert Reilly is on assignment overseas for the next few months. His column will resume upon his return. In the meantime, some of his friends will be filling in. For my part, I would like to offer Crisis readers a personal list of the 14 best film scores according…
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Sed Contra: Are We All Bigots Now?
Deal W. Hudson June 1, 2003 The following excerpt is from Jay Leno’s opening monologue on The Tonight Show (April 23, 2003): “The Republican senator from Pennsylvania, Rick Santorum—well, let me finish. Don’t hiss me. You can hiss the guy later. He is causing quite a lot of controversy this week with remarks he made…
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Sed Contra: The Neocon Question
Deal W. Hudson July 1, 2003 On a fairly regular basis, both I and CRISIS are described as “neoconservative”—a branding that manages to be both puzzling and expected. Frankly, I’ve never thought of myself or the magazine primarily in terms of a political movement; indeed, the only isms I espouse without exception are Catholicism and…
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Sed Contra: The Sound of Desperation
Deal W. Hudson September 1, 2003 “Letting Hudson define Catholicism is like letting Osama define Islam.” Thus columnist Ellen Goodman opined in the Boston Globe on August 3. Normally, I wince when I read criticism about myself in print, but this made me smile. It’s an encouraging sign when an important leader of the opposition,…
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Sed Contra: Where’s the Hope?
Deal W. Hudson October 1, 2003 Before e-mail, I could have never received personal messages from hundreds of people in a single day. But as our weekly e-mail newsletter has grown, so has the number of readers who take the time to respond (and, yes, I read them all). Most of the messages are positive…
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Sed Contra: Watch This Closely
Deal W. Hudson January 1, 2004 In the next couple of months, the National Review Board will issue two reports. On January 6, the board will announce the results of its diocesan audit that measures compliance with the charter the bishops adopted in June 2002 to protect children and youth. And on February 27, the…
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Sed Contra: The Coming Test
Deal W. Hudson April 1, 2004 This summer in Boston the Democratic Party will formally nominate a pro-abortion Catholic, Senator John Kerry, as its candidate for president. This is the man who went out of his way during the primary to identify himself as the most pro-abortion of all the candidates. When asked what his…
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