Category: Ethics
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Bishops Say Immigrants’ Needs Come Before Border Security
Deal W. Hudson November 22, 2007 The three bishops of Maryland have just released a statement on immigration, saying the right of a nation to control its borders is secondary to an immigrant’s basic needs. These three bishops – Archbishop O’Brien, Archbishop Wuerl, and Bishop Saltarelli – reiterate the policy espoused by the United States…
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Giuliani Adviser is an Accused Pedophile Priest?
Deal W. Hudson November 26, 2007 Since 2002, Msgr. Alan Placa has worked for Rudy Giuliani as a consultant at Giuliani Partners. In 2003 a grand jury report of Suffolk County, NY, accused Placa of sexually abusing multiple victims. A spokeswoman for Giuliani Partners told Salon Magazine that the former New York City mayor believes Placa was…
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University of St. Thomas Snubs Archbishop
Deal W. Hudson November 29, 2007 On October 25, the board of the University of St. Thomas voted to change its bylaws so that the incoming archbishop of St. Paul-Minneapolis would no longer automatically serve as its ex-officio chairman. In 2008, Archbishop Harry Flynn will retire. His replacement, coadjutor Archbishop John C. Nienstedt, is well-known…
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God Goes on Trial in San Francisco
Deal W. Hudson December 3, 2007 On December 4, Seamus Hasson, president of the Becket Fund, will argue on behalf of public school students who want to keep “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance. Two years ago, the politically liberal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (San Francisco) struck down recitation of the Pledge because it contains “under…
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Obama Advisor is Well Known Dissenting Catholic
Deal W. Hudson December 7, 2007 Marshall Ganz, a Harvard sociologist, was a major force behind organizing Voice of the Faithful (VOTF), a dissenting Catholic organization devoted to “structural” change in the Church. VOTF, you may recall, used the occasion of the priest sex scandals to call for changes in Catholic doctrine such as the…
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Campaign 2008 – A Conversation with John McCain
Deal W. Hudson December 10, 2007 With the opinion polls in motion and the Republican primary back up in the air, Deal Hudson talked to Sen. John McCain about the race, his bruises over immigration, his attraction to the Baptist church, and the role of faith in the voting booth. ♦ ♦ ♦ Deal Hudson:…
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Why The Republicans Won’t Nominate Rudy Giuliani
Deal W. Hudson December 17, 2007 Two dramas are unfolding this political season. First, can Barak Obama defeat Hillary Clinton? Now that Oprah Winfrey is on his stage, evidently he can. Second, will the pro-life party nominate Rudy Giuliani and break its promise to the religious and social conservatives who came into the party over…
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Bishop Says Catholic Schools Are Not the First Priority
Deal W. Hudson December 20, 2007 Bishops are closing Catholic schools all over the country because they can no longer afford them. But this is the story of one school being closed that doesn’t cost the bishops a penny. Seventy-five-year-old St. Augustine Catholic School is the only Catholic school in Ocean City, New Jersey. Supported…
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Huckabee Fails to Attract Catholic Voters
Deal W. Hudson January 11, 2008 The Catholic voter problem that surfaced in Iowa has followed Gov. Mike Huckabee to New Hampshire. In Iowa, Huckabee received strong support in predominately Evangelical counties, but his support fell sharply in counties with large numbers of Catholic voters. There was no improvement in New Hampshire for the former governor of Arkansas.…
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Anti-Catholic Bias in Georgetown AIDS Report
Deal W. Hudson January 14, 2008 On January 9, Ray Ruddy, president of Boston’s Gerard Health Foundation, wrote a letter to Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia asking him to disavow or retract a Georgetown report entitled “Faith Communities Engage the HIV/AIDS Crisis.” The report, published in November by Georgetown’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace,…
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