Category: Culture
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Is the Future of the Christian Vote in Doubt?
Deal W. Hudson June 8, 2009 June 1 was a lovely day in Northern Virginia when the staff of InsideCatholic gathered with friends for our annual Lazarus Golf Tournament at Bull Run Golf Club, nestled against the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Before playing, however, we hosted a roundtable discussion entitled “The Future of…
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The Basement of the Culture of Death
Deal W. Hudson June 11, 2009 With a pro-abortion president in the White House, new sub-groups in the broader “culture of death” is coming into view. One of them is dark, indeed. Take two recent events: Dr. George Tiller is compared to Martin Luther King, Jr. The president of Catholics for Choice attacks a political…
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President Obama Meets with Catholic Journalists
Deal W. Hudson July 3, 2009 Yesterday, President Obama held a 45-minute meeting in the Roosevelt Room at the White House with some members of the Catholic press. According to the Catholic News Service, those presently included writers from National Catholic Reporter, America, Commonweal, Catholic Digest, Vatican Radio, as well as a (non-Catholic) religion writer from the Washington Post. Rev. Owen Kearns was…
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Why Catholics Should Oppose Sotomayor
Deal W. Hudson July 6, 2009 The confirmation of nominee Sonia Sotomayor as a Supreme Court justice is almost a certainty. She’s a woman, a Hispanic, and the pick of a popular president who leads the party that controls the Senate. Democratic leadership in the Senate is determined to complete hearings before the Judiciary Committee…
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Did President Obama Mislead the Holy Father?
Deal W. Hudson July 16, 2009 In the late afternoon of July 10, President Obama met privately with Pope Benedict XVI for just over 30 minutes. According to official Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi, S.J., “The president explicitly expressed his commitment to reducing the numbers of abortions and to listen to the church’s concern on moral issues.” On July…
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Catholic Schools Are Saving New Orleans’ Children
Deal W. Hudson July 23, 2009 Catholics Teach the Children of New Orleans Since the Katrina disaster, the schools of the Archdiocese of New Orleans have swelled to double the enrollment of the local public schools – 40,000 to 20,000. Rev. Neal McDermott, O.P., superintendent of the Catholic schools, told me yesterday that the archdiocese is facing a financial…
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An Open Letter to Tiger Woods, Asking for More
Deal W. Hudson July 27, 2009 Dear Tiger, Golf commentator Rick Reilly recently upbraided you in an ESPN.com column for your behavior during golf tournaments. When I first read the words, “Woods needs to clean up his act,” I was surprised that a writer whose livelihood depends on access to golfers like you would jeopardize his career…
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Building a Farm Team of New Conservative Leadership
Deal W. Hudson July 29, 2009 What is being done to reinvigorate the next generation of conservatives in politics? Many new initiatives have been announced, but one of the few that will make a difference in coming elections is American Majority. Founded in January 2008, this organization is aggressively recruiting and training a new generation of grassroots activists…
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Reading Into the Church
Deal W. Hudson August 1, 2009 Reading, said Josemar�an Escriv�, has made many a saint. In my own case, it has merely made a convert, but I do continue to read ever more deeply into the mystery that is the Church. Thomas Merton, we recall from Seven Storey Mountain, was started on his road to the…
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