Category: Culture
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100+ of the Best Catholic Novels
Deal W. Hudson December 6, 2014 The purpose of this list is merely to recommend good books your may or may not be familiar with. I appreciate lists of this kind and look for them at the end of each year to catch up on year’s books I may have missed — which is usually…
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Marion Montgomery’s Summa: A Journey through the American Mind
Deal W. Hudson Readers may already be familiar with the name Marion Montgomery. For many years his articles have appeared regularly in Modern Age, Hillsdale Review, This World, and Chronicles, and Crisis recently published his comment on “De-construction and Eric Voegelin” (June 1988). But the growth of Montgomery’s reputation has been spurred by the publication…
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A Christian Man of Letters Departs
Deal W. Hudson Published July 23, 2002 You may not have heard of him, but a Christian man of letters, one of our greatest, just passed away. A native of Georgia and educated at its University, Marion Montgomery was a prolific writer. His works include three novels, short stories, poetry, literary and cultural criticism, a…
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Money: Making It, Spending It, and Giving It Away
Deal W. Hudson 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, Hanna is the…
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On Beauty – A Message to Its Religious Despisers
Deal W. Hudson What did Fyodor Dostoevsky mean in The Idiot when one of his characters asserts, “Beauty will save the world”? Taken at face value, it’s a claim that beauty plays a role in the salvation of us all. There are quite a few Christians, of all denominations, who would respond to that claim…
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Are We at a Moment Before the Deluge?
Deal W. Hudson Published July 5, 2010 The phrase “Après moi, le déluge” is attributed to Louis XV on his deathbed. Fifteen years later, in 1789, the French Revolution confirmed his prediction: “After me, the flood.” Whether the king felt a sense of foreboding of things to come or simple indifference, the expression seems an…
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Bobby Jones Meets the President
Deal W. Hudson Last summer I had a supremely enjoyable day introducing my daughter to golf. As I watched her skip down the fairway with a cut-off five iron in her hand, I wondered if she would learn to love the game the way I did from my father. He helped teach me the hard…
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The Last Outpost of American Manners
DEAL W. HUDSON Published July 1,1995 The scene at the final hole at the Masters Golf Tournament—Ben Crenshaw weeping for joy, bent over, head in hands, while his caddy Carl Jackson comforts him. In that image many of us noticed something almost lost, nearly extinct, in American manners—the gratitude of a pious man who loves…
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A Culture Without Urbanity
Deal W. Hudson There were nights as a boy I was allowed to stay up late and watch Jack Paar on the Tonight Show which he hosted from 1957-1962. What I remember most about Paar’s style was his warm wit and sly charm but especially his gift for conversation, for creating a rapport and audience…
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Pro-Life Voters and the Culture
Deal W Hudson “Social conservatism” has long been the Good Housekeeping brand in pro-life politics. Its usefulness, however, has come to an end, not because the moral commitments it signifies are any less important, but because politics is about attracting voters. A new language that in no way compromises the principles of life, marriage, and…
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