Category: Faith
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Why Did the USCCB Join This Civil Rights Organization?
Deal W. Hudson February 8, 2010 The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has some surprising associations. For example, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights(LCCHR), founded in 1950, lobbies the Congress and White House on behalf of its 200 coalition members, which includes the USCCB. Members of the LCCHR must pay annual dues depending on…
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Why I Signed the CCHD Petition
Deal W. Hudson February 15, 2010 I’ve been asked why I support the Reform CCHD Now petition requesting that the bishops suspend all Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) grants until a thorough review of the program has been completed. A series of reports by Reform CCHD have revealed clear evidence that grants are being given to organizations supporting…
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Will the Government Take Over the Internet?
Deal W. Hudson February 18, 2010 How many times have you been on an important cell-phone call, and suddenly the call is dropped? Whether you pay for service from Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, or any other service provider, dead zones are unhappy facts of daily life. For the past few years, phone companies have been encouraged…
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Catholics Organize to Promote Gay Marriage
Deal W. Hudson February 24, 2010 Those wondering why Francis Cardinal George suddenly announced his condemnation of New Ways Ministry on February 5 should take note of a meeting held a few days earlier in Washington, D.C. During the last weekend of January, a group of Catholics, lay and religious, met in Washington to launch “Catholics for…
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Catholic Bishops Must Change Health Care Strategy
Deal W. Hudson March 11, 2010 The lobbying strategy of the Catholic bishops in the health-care debate thus far has been one of qualified support. We support the health-care reform bill, the bishops argue, as long as it does not contain abortion funding and provides conscience protection for health-care workers. The only help the bishops…
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Fifty-Nine Thousand Nuns Oppose the Bishops on Health Care
Deal W. Hudson March 18, 2010 “Don’t mess with nuns!” is a comment I’ve often heard over the years from cradle Catholics who were taught by them. The question now arises whether the undecided Catholic members of the House will be influenced by the 60 nuns – each a leader of her religious order –…
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Why Catholics Should Work to Repeal the Health Care Bill
Deal W. Hudson March 29, 2010 There are only two facts Catholics need to know about the health-care bill to decide it must be repealed: The bill signed by the president includes federal funding for abortion, and the executive order does nothing to remove that funding. You don’t have to accept those facts on my…
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Too Many Catholics on the Supreme Court?
Deal W. Hudson April 11, 2010 With the upcoming retirement of Justice John Paul Stevens, the media have once again started counting the number of Catholics on the Supreme Court. A recent headline in the New York Times announced, “Stevens, the Only Protestant on the Supreme Court.” Well, so what? The Times article notes that Stevens’ retirement raises the possibility that the next Court…
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Seven Ways the Bishops Should Respond to Sex Abuse
Deal W. Hudson April 15, 2010 To rebuild the trust of U.S. Catholics in the Church and its leaders and to make reparations to the victims left in the wake of this scandal, the bishops need to address several points: 1. The bishops should make clear that this is a crisis and that they are…
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The Ongoing Saga of the Priest Sex Abuse Scandal
Deal W. Hudson April 19, 2010 In October 2001, crisis Magazine published an article, titled “The High Price of Priestly Pederasty,” by Dan Michalski. Reporting on publicly known cases of sex abuse by priests, Michalski summarized his findings: So far, more than 3,000 Catholic priests in America have been accused of sexual misconduct with minors, and nearly…
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