Category: Ethics
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Spiritual Renewal Through Beauty
Deal W. Hudson December 7, 2014 Catholics need to be more welcoming to each other and to parish visitors. It’s not the first time I have made that observation, and it’s not the first time much of the response has been negative. Why? I’m accused of forcing evangelical habits on a Catholic parish, of endorsing…
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When Catholics Lost Their Cultural Clout
Deal W. Hudson December 10, 2014 Catholics of my generation probably remember only dimly the furor provoked among Catholics by films in the 1950s directed by Luis Bunuel, Los Olivados (1950); Roberto Rossellini, The Miracle (1951); Otto Preminger, The Moon is Blue (1953); Elia Kazan, Baby Doll (1956); Roger Vadim, And God Created Woman (1956);…
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Christmas 2014 — A Poem
Deal W. Hudson December 20, 2014 By Mary Jo Matthews (1927 — December 18, 2014) Oh, little town of Bethlehem, Do men still gaze above, Through bombs and smoke, To seek the Christmas star? Godless men defile their faith, Bestowed on them with love, Faith that guided the Magi, When they travelled from afar. Oh,…
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Why Should the Church Continue to Perform Marriages for the State?
Deal W. Hudson December 14, 2014 We take for granted that priests, and other ministers, sign a couple’s marriage license after a wedding ceremony. At that moment the state, both the individual states and the United States, legally recognize the marriage. Priests and ministers, thus, act as agents of the government and are duly recognized…
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A Writer Who Questions Whether or Not Jesus is Real
Deal W. Hudson January 10, 2015 Madeline St John (1941-2006), pronounced “sin-gin,” is a writer who never caught on in the United States, and I’m not sure why. Perhaps it was her early death in 2006. When Carroll & Graf published three of her novels in the late 90s, I was certain American readers would…
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Obama’s Decision Was Repugnant
Deal W. Hudson January 12, 2015 I really don’t understand this President. It’s one thing to say, I don’t like this President, or I don’t agree with this President, but to say, I don’t understand this President, is even more alarming to me. Obama’s decision not to accept the invitation of French President François Hollande, to…
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St. Thomas Aquinas Came to My Ambulance
Deal W. Hudson January 28, 2015 The Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas I would guess that most Catholics look at the sanctity of St. Thomas Aquinas as primarily an intellectual charism, given that he was the greatest Christian intellectual of the Middle Ages, a period of over 800 years. I had viewed St. Thomas in…
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Challenges Facing Catholic Voters in the 2016 Election
Deal W. Hudson March 11, 2015 Anyone who wishes to understand the Catholic vote needs to recognize two things from the start. First, there is no reliable “Catholic block” of voters, but there is a sizable group of white Catholic moderates who “swing” back and forth from one party to the other. They can determine…
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10 Ways Catholics Can Elect the Next President
Deal W. Hudson March 13, 2015 The 2016 election will be decisive for the future of our nation. Eight more years of leadership such as we have witnessed under Obama will stamp our culture so deeply it would take a century to undo the damage. What damage, you ask? Eight more years will bring an…
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The God Who Died
Deal W. Hudson April 2, 2015 What kind of “God” could die? If you think about it and apply your common sense, a God is something perfect, eternal, present to everything, lacking nothing. That which we call “God” cannot suffer anything, much less death. Yet, we are fast upon the day when our God, the…
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