Category: Culture
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Why There Is No Church Teaching on the Health Care Bill
Deal W. Hudson March 8, 2010 Even I was surprised a few weeks ago at the strength of the positive response to my column asking, “Is It Time for a Catholic Tea Party?” There’s considerable unrest among faithful Catholics who differ with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) on some of its major policy positions, as…
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Catholic Bishops Must Change Health Care Strategy
Deal W. Hudson March 11, 2010 The lobbying strategy of the Catholic bishops in the health-care debate thus far has been one of qualified support. We support the health-care reform bill, the bishops argue, as long as it does not contain abortion funding and provides conscience protection for health-care workers. The only help the bishops…
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Fifty-Nine Thousand Nuns Oppose the Bishops on Health Care
Deal W. Hudson March 18, 2010 “Don’t mess with nuns!” is a comment I’ve often heard over the years from cradle Catholics who were taught by them. The question now arises whether the undecided Catholic members of the House will be influenced by the 60 nuns – each a leader of her religious order –…
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Bart Stupak Failed Us
Deal W. Hudson March 22, 2010 We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men The evening the Stupak-Pitts Amendment passed, I expressed the hope that a new era of pro-life politics had begun. For the first time in a long time, the Democratic Party had an advocate for the unborn around whom others could rally.…
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Why Catholics Should Work to Repeal the Health Care Bill
Deal W. Hudson March 29, 2010 There are only two facts Catholics need to know about the health-care bill to decide it must be repealed: The bill signed by the president includes federal funding for abortion, and the executive order does nothing to remove that funding. You don’t have to accept those facts on my…
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Are the Bishops ‘Advancing the Republican Agenda’?
Deal W. Hudson April 5, 2010 Regular readers may be taken aback by the question, but I ask it seriously. In fact, I am repeating a question put to Francis Cardinal George by a reporter for the Catholic News Service. A March 23 story from CNS, written by Nancy Frazier O’Brien, featured an exchange with Cardinal George,…
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Glee and the Search for Postmodern Innocence
Deal W. Hudson May 31, 2010 The musical comedy-drama Glee debuted on Fox just over a year ago. The story of a high school Spanish teacher’s attempts to resurrect the Lima, Ohio, high school glee club surprised critics by ending its first season ranked at 33 in the Nielsen ratings. Now in its second season, the show’s…
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The Coming Anti-Catholic Storm
Deal W. Hudson June 7, 2010 Some will say it’s already here, and I wouldn’t argue with them. The first gusts of the anti-Catholic storm have already been resisted, thanks to the courageous vigilance of Bill Donohue at the Catholic League. Now we have The New York Times‘ relentless barrage of reporting and opinion designed to…
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The Pro-Life Leader Who Is Also an Exorcist
Deal W. Hudson July 18, 2010 Having just read Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuers’s new book, Exorcism and the Church Militant, one of the first things I asked him was whether he was afraid of demons. I shivered more than once reading through its short chapters, arranged as basic questions about the devil, demons, possession, and the…
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