Category: Faith
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Sed Contra: The White Flag of Surrender
Deal W. Hudson December 1, 2003 During the November meeting of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) in Washington, D.C., the president of Call to Action presented the bishops with a letter from 6,000 Catholics asking that celibacy become optional for the priesthood. Their motivation, as quoted in USA Today, was to make…
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Sed Contra: Watch This Closely
Deal W. Hudson January 1, 2004 In the next couple of months, the National Review Board will issue two reports. On January 6, the board will announce the results of its diocesan audit that measures compliance with the charter the bishops adopted in June 2002 to protect children and youth. And on February 27, the…
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Sed Contra: The Coming Test
Deal W. Hudson April 1, 2004 This summer in Boston the Democratic Party will formally nominate a pro-abortion Catholic, Senator John Kerry, as its candidate for president. This is the man who went out of his way during the primary to identify himself as the most pro-abortion of all the candidates. When asked what his…
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Sed Contra: Funding Imagination
Deal W. Hudson May 1, 2004 Conservatives, by and large, don’t trust the arts. The suspicion goes back to four centuries before Christ when Plato famously argued that the passions awakened by artists were a threat to the state. In 1965 the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) was created, along with its sister, the…
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Sed Contra: The Bishops’ Conference in a Political Season
Deal W. Hudson July 1, 2004 Catholic pundit Kate O’Beirne famously called the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) the “Democratic Party at prayer.” In an ongoing series on the bishops in CRISIS, we only slightly amended that by noting the USCCB’s commitment to the defense of innocent life—a stance not shared with the…
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Sed Contra: A Change for the Better
Deal W. Hudson September 1, 2004 As you’ve probably already noticed, Crisis Magazine has gotten a major face-lift. Not only have we completely redesigned our look, but we’re now full color from cover to cover. Our reasons are many, but the main one is simple: This is our small way of thanking you for being…
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Sed Contra: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Deal W. Hudson November 1, 2004 It’s been over ten years since I took the helm of Crisis Magazine and moved my family to Washington, D.C. Since then the circulation has grown from 6,000 to over 32,000, the full-time staff from three to eleven, and the budget has more than quadrupled to nearly $2 million.…
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Sed Contra: Catholics Take a Stand
Deal W. Hudson December 1, 2004 The Church dodged a bullet on November 2. The last thing the Church needed was an openly dissenting Catholic in the White House. By now everyone knows that Catholics voted for George Bush at the historic level of 51 percent overall and 55 percent of regular Mass attendees. This…
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Will New Jersey Elect a Pro-Life Catholic Governor?
Deal W. Hudson April 27, 2009 As of a few days ago, a pro-life Catholic held the lead in the New Jersey governor’s race. Chris Christie has been steadily polling ahead of the current Democratic governor, Jon Corzine, and the other Republican candidate for the nomination. Christie’s eleven point lead over Corzine, and 25 point lead over…
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Notre Dame Fumbles Its Obama Offensive
Deal W. Hudson May 5, 2009 Bishop Thomas Wenski celebrated a Mass of Reparation this past Sunday in Orlando at the Cathedral of St. James. Although the Mass was offered in reparation for transgressions “against the dignity and sacredness of human life,” the one specific transgression prompting the liturgy was the decision by the University of Notre…
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