Category: Faith
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The 100 Best Catholic Novels I Know
Deal W. Hudson June 14, 2016 In offering this list, I’m not making an attempt to define the “Catholic novel,” which would be a very foolish enterprise. There are many reasons why a novel can, and sometimes should be called “Catholic,” but to attach that impulse to a grand metaphysic or aesthetic theory would require…
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CATHOLIC OUTREACH AND THE CLERGY: What Happens From a Layman’s Point of View
Deal W. Hudson June 24, 2016 I am giving a presentation tonight, and I thought I would share my outline with TCR readers. CATHOLIC OUTREACH AND THE CLERGY: What Happens From a Layman’s Point of View An Outline Deal W. Hudson Good-will, but naive, Catholic laypersons go to one of their priests to talk about…
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An Hour with Dana Gioia and His Poetry — A Radio Interview
Deal W. Hudson June 25, 2016 Here is my one-hour interview with poet, critic, essayist, Dana Gioia on “Church and Culture” on the Ave Maria Radio Network. “Church and Culture” were heard on Saturday 2 pm to 4 pm EST from and Sunday 7.30-9.30 pm EST. Dana Gioia reads and discusses his newest book, 99 Poems: New…
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A Speech on Pro-Life Politics – A Layman’s Point of View
Deal W. Hudson June 26, 2016 On June 24, 2016, I gave this speech on Faithful Citizenship at the Ruah Woods Conference Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. I followed Father Frank Pavone, head of Priests for Life. I shared my experiences in the Catholic outreach efforts of George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004, as well…
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The Catholic Church Doesn’t Really Care About Abortion
Deal W. Hudson August 15, 2016 Here we are, in the midst of a presidential election pitting an avowed abortion advocate against an avowed pro-life candidate. Making the choice between them starker, Hillary Clinton has chosen a pro-abortion Catholic, Sen. Tim Kaine, while Donald Trump picked pro-life Gov. Mike Pence. To make matters even starker,…
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How the Catholic Church Helps the Clinton/Kaine Ticket
Deal W. Hudson August 16, 2016 When I wrote “Why the Catholic Church Doesn’t Really Care About Abortion,” I thought it would fall, as they say, on deaf ears. I was surprised that so many readers immediately grasped the issues I had with Archbishop Chaput’s column of August 12, 2016, as well as my claim that the Catholic…
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The Four Loopholes in the Bishop’s Political Guidance
Deal W. Hudson August 18, 2016 Every four years the Catholic bishops publish a document entitled “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship.” This document represents the official guidance given to Catholic voters in a national election. In my opinion, “Forming Consciences” is seriously flawed, offering four loopholes allowing Catholics to look away from candidates who support…
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A Letter From the Archdiocese of Philadelphia Regarding a Column I Wrote
Deal W. Hudson August 23, 2016 The following is a letter to me from Kevin Gavin, Director of Communications for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. I asked his permission to publish it here, which he kindly gave. Dear Deal, I read your recent commentary published by The Christian Review on Monday and was deeply concerned. We’re certainly all…
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Bishop Robert McElroy Urges Catholics to “All Become Disrupters”
Deal W. Hudson February 20, 2017 In the column written for NEWSMAX, I report on the U.S. Regional World Meeting of Popular Movements, held February 16-19 in Modesto, CA. Towards the end I call upon the USCCB, a sponsor of the conference, to publicly distance itself from the call of Bishop McElroy towards the violence of “disruption.”…
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The Day a Red Bird Sang St. Thomas Aquinas
I was coming to the end of my first year as a college professor at Mercer University Atlanta. I was still a Southern Baptist though I had been wrestling with that affiliation since being introduced to St. Augustine at Princeton Theological Seminary. One of the greatest Protestant theologians, Soren Kierkegaard, had provided the base motif…
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