Category: Media
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Creating a New Mt. Carmel… in America
Deal W. Hudson September 15, 2008 Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote about the “Last Carmelite Monks in America.” At the time, the eight Carmelites and their novices were overflowing their four-bedroom rectory in the mountains of northwest Wyoming. Since then, the monks’ numbers have grown quickly. By the end of the year, there will be…
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A Jesuit’s Case for Barack Obama
Deal W. Hudson September 28, 2008 A few days ago Rev. Ray Schroth, S.J., posted “Why This Priest Votes for Obama” on the NJ Voice blog. Father Schroth teaches humanities at St. Peter’s College and is presently working on a book about Rev. Robert Drinan, S.J. Father was careful in making his endorsement: “I do not say…
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Selling Obama as a Pro-Life Candidate
Deal W. Hudson October 2, 2008 Just when this presidential election could not get any stranger, David Brody reports the launching of a “Pro-Life Pro-Obama” Web site. When is the “John McCain, Pacifist” Website going to show up? The effort to sell Obama as a pro-life candidate is being spearheaded by a group called the Matthew 25…
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Praying the Rosary for the Election
Deal W. Hudson October 7, 2008 “I would exhort people to say the rosary every day for life and for the success of the election.” These are the words of Anthony Cardinal Bevilacqua, the retired archbishop of Philadelphia. When I spoke to him yesterday, the cardinal emphasized that he neither spoke officially for the archdiocese…
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Last Safe Haven for Iraqi Christians Taken by Al-Qaeda
Deal W. Hudson October 13, 2008 “Now the last safe haven for Christians is gone,” said Canon Andrew White, the vicar of St. George’s church in Baghdad. During the past week, twelve Christians have been killed and more than 3,000 have left the city of Mosul, once considered a safe zone for persecuted Iraqi Christians.…
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How Will History Judge Catholics in the 2008 Election?
Deal W. Hudson October 24, 2008 The Catholic Church is often accused of complicity in a variety of moral evils, including the institution of slavery, the rise of the Nazi Party, and even the horror of the Holocaust itself. Historians differ on the degree of blame properly assigned to Catholics. But they all agree on…
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Money – Making It, Spending It, And Giving It Away
Deal W. Hudson October 24, 2008 Frank J. Hanna III has become one of the leading Catholic philanthropists in the nation. His Solidarity Foundation recently obtained the oldest extant copy of portions of the Gospels of Luke and John and presented them to Pope Benedict XVI for the Vatican Library. A merchant banker in Atlanta,…
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Texas Bishops Face Protests from Pro-Abortion Catholics
Deal W. Hudson October 27, 2008 When is the last time a bishop’s statement on abortion resulted in several days of protest from pro-abortion Catholics? The joint statement issued last Friday by Bishop Kevin Vann of Fort Worth and Bishop Kevin Farrell of Dallas has done just that. No doubt the forceful clarity of the bishops’ message…
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What Are We Doing?
Deal W. Hudson October 27, 2008 Last night, the Archdiocese of New York held its famous Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, with both Senators John McCain and Barack Obama as guests. I watched the coverage today – the story is all over the news, along with images of Obama and Edward Cardinal Egan sharing…
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Is a Split in the GOP Inevitable?
Deal W. Hudson October 31, 2008 As I write this, Sen. John McCain is edging closer to Sen. Barack Obama in the national polls. Whether this will translate into enough votes to win battleground states like Pennsylvania, Florida, and Ohio is still a long shot. But whatever happens on November 4, a major shake-up in the…
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