Category: Media
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Music: Fourteen to Remember
Deal W. Hudson May 1, 2003 Robert Reilly is on assignment overseas for the next few months. His column will resume upon his return. In the meantime, some of his friends will be filling in. For my part, I would like to offer Crisis readers a personal list of the 14 best film scores according…
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Sed Contra: Are We All Bigots Now?
Deal W. Hudson June 1, 2003 The following excerpt is from Jay Leno’s opening monologue on The Tonight Show (April 23, 2003): “The Republican senator from Pennsylvania, Rick Santorum—well, let me finish. Don’t hiss me. You can hiss the guy later. He is causing quite a lot of controversy this week with remarks he made…
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Sed Contra: The Neocon Question
Deal W. Hudson July 1, 2003 On a fairly regular basis, both I and CRISIS are described as “neoconservative”—a branding that manages to be both puzzling and expected. Frankly, I’ve never thought of myself or the magazine primarily in terms of a political movement; indeed, the only isms I espouse without exception are Catholicism and…
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Sed Contra: The Sound of Desperation
Deal W. Hudson September 1, 2003 “Letting Hudson define Catholicism is like letting Osama define Islam.” Thus columnist Ellen Goodman opined in the Boston Globe on August 3. Normally, I wince when I read criticism about myself in print, but this made me smile. It’s an encouraging sign when an important leader of the opposition,…
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Sed Contra: Where’s the Hope?
Deal W. Hudson October 1, 2003 Before e-mail, I could have never received personal messages from hundreds of people in a single day. But as our weekly e-mail newsletter has grown, so has the number of readers who take the time to respond (and, yes, I read them all). Most of the messages are positive…
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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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