Category: Ethics
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The Catholic Press Warily Enters the Digital Age
Deal W. Hudson October 6, 2010 As I write, there is a Catholic Press Conference being held at the Vatican, sponsored by the Pontifical Council for Social Communications. Three representatives were invited from each country, and one of them was Greg Erlandson, president of Our Sunday Visitor. Erlandson is an astute and experienced observer of Catholic media, and…
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The Truth about Virtue and Happiness
Deal W. Hudson October 7, 2010 During four years of college and seven of graduate school, most of it in philosophy and theology, I heard only one lecture on virtue – the virtue of art. Thus I consider it miraculous that the language of virtue has returned to public discourse. But the virtues don’t tell…
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The False Charge of “Politicizing the Church”
Deal W. Hudson October 12, 2010 Popular Catholic blogger Jeff Miller of the Curt Jester thinks my notion of a Catholic Tea Party is a “bad idea.” It may, in fact, be a bad idea, but if so, not for the reasons he gives. There’s no need to rehearse the entire argument because it comprises variations on a single…
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Will the Catholic Campaign for Human Development Keep Its Promises?
Deal W. Hudson November 1, 2010 Last week, the USCCB issued its “Review and Renewal of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development.” The document contains a series of recommendations to reform CCHD grant awards in response to alarming disclosures that financial support was going to groups that supported abortion and same-sex marriage. Five groups were defunded, but…
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The Catholic Campaign’s New Problem with Coalitions
Deal W. Hudson November 9, 2010 When the USCCB issued its document a few weeks ago announcing the “Review and Renewal of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development,” I wondered aloud if the CCHD would be able to keep its promises. As it turns out, one of the promises was broken the moment the document was published. “Review and…
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Mere Taste
Deal W. Hudson November 18, 2010 At present, more rap stars have been killed than abortionists. I was sitting on an airport shuttle bus when I overheard two men in their thirties discussing the second murder of a rap singer. “People need to see that this isn’t just about music,” one said. I think I…
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The Last Institution
Deal W. Hudson December 9, 2010 Some cliches, like some books, seem wise when we are young. Most of the D. H. Lawrence I admired when I was twenty sounds pretty silly to me now. I remember embracing the cliche about the inferiority of institutional religion as opposed to personal “religiousness.” In those days, I…
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Bill Donohue Is Accused of Starting the Fight over Christmas
Deal W. Hudson December 20, 2010 I was putting together my list of “ten most laughable public attacks of 2010” when I received an e-mail newsletter from Chris Korzen and the team at Catholics United. Korzen’s letter – an attack on Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, and Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York – was…
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Art Worth Dying For?
Deal W. Hudson December 6, 2014 A Review of “The Monument Men” (2013) Starring George Clooney, “The Monuments Men,” chronicled the efforts of 345 men and women from 13 nations who volunteered to recover works of arts stolen by the Nazis. Created in 1943 by an act of Congress and the support of President Roosevelt, this…
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Soundtrack Suggestions for Christmas
Deal W. Hudson December 7, 2014 “King of Kings” soundtrack by Miklos Rozsa. It’s not too far-fetched to say that film music has become our “classical music.” Far, far more listeners have heard full orchestras blaring in movie theaters than in concert halls for the past fifty years. This tradition of symphonic music which was…
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