Category: Faith
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How to Refute Arguments Against Priestly Celibacy
Deal W. Hudson 5 Arguments Against Priestly Celibacy and How to Refute Them 1. Allowing priests to marry would end pedophilia. It is completely untrue that celibate priests are more likely to be pedophiles than any other group of men, married or not. Pedophilia affects only 0.3 percent of the population of Catholic clergy, and…
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After Dallas – Disappointment and Hope
Deal W. Hudson After months of buildup to the bishops’ conference, it seems strange that it has already come and gone so quickly. The best that can be said of the Dallas meeting is that it was the first step. Zero tolerance is a tough policy, and it was adopted against the counsel of no…
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How To Make Sure “Catholic” Colleges Really Are
Deal W. Hudson As you may know, I have a daughter who’ll be heading off to college in a few years. Like any faithful parent, if she goes to a Catholic school, I want to make sure she’s being taught authentic Catholicism. None of that watered-down nonsense, thank you very much. In fact, you yourself…
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The Alternative World Youth Day
Deal W. Hudson Buckle your seatbelts. This is going to be fun. As you know, things are in full swing at World Youth Day in Toronto right now, and I’d love to be there. It’d be great to see the pope and the thousands of young people from around the world celebrating their faith together.…
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The Bishop’s Secret Letter
Deal W. Hudson As you may already know, the Catholic world has been buzzing about a confidential letter composed by eight American bishops in which they called for a Plenary Council to address problems in the Church. Journalists and pundits have been speculating and debating about the alleged contents of the letter and the identities…
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Remembering September 11th
Deal W. Hudson September 11, 2002 Many of us have been dreading the approach of the one-year anniversary of September 11th. After a long year of suffering under the memory of that horrible day, most of us are loath to relive it. We want to forget, or at least not subject ourselves anew to the…
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Rome Rejects While the Bishops “Reflect”
Deal W. Hudson Just when I thought it was going to be a slow news week, two big stories break practically on top of each other. I was in the middle of writing up some thoughts on the Plenary Council, as I promised in my last e-letter, but I think I’ll have to put that…
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“Voice of the Faithful” Shows Its Stripes
Deal W. Hudson There was quite a flurry in the news yesterday involving our favorite dissident group, Voice of the Faithful (VOTF). It seems that yet another bishop has banned a VOTF affiliate from meeting in a North Andover, Massachusetts parish. Auxiliary Bishop Emilio S. Allue from the Boston Archdiocese wrote that “the activities and…
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A Dark Day for Pro-Abortionists
Deal W. Hudson Well, the dust has finally begun to settle from the election flurry earlier this week. Now that things are starting to clear up, it’s time for us to step back and assess the situation. There certainly were some unexpected upsets, but what I think was the most unexpected – and the most…
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War for Oil?
Deal W. Hudson Yesterday I mentioned the problems that can arise when people make faulty assumptions about your motives based solely on your actions. This isn’t just a problem when solving disputes in the Church, though; I’ve seen it happen time and again when people discuss the possibility of war in Iraq. I know a…
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