Category: Politics
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Is the Future of the Christian Vote in Doubt?
Deal W. Hudson June 8, 2009 June 1 was a lovely day in Northern Virginia when the staff of InsideCatholic gathered with friends for our annual Lazarus Golf Tournament at Bull Run Golf Club, nestled against the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Before playing, however, we hosted a roundtable discussion entitled “The Future of…
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The Basement of the Culture of Death
Deal W. Hudson June 11, 2009 With a pro-abortion president in the White House, new sub-groups in the broader “culture of death” is coming into view. One of them is dark, indeed. Take two recent events: Dr. George Tiller is compared to Martin Luther King, Jr. The president of Catholics for Choice attacks a political…
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Vatican Newspaper Editor Digs Deeper Hole
Deal W. Hudson June 18, 2009 In an interview published at National Review Online, Gian Maria Vian, editor of L’Osservatore Romano, responded to his critics. Vian makes it clear that he doesn’t have a high opinion of writers, like me, who have taken him to task for his treatment of President Barack Obama: I think that if American Catholics could…
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The Good News about Our Bishops
Deal W. Hudson June 25, 2009 For those who may be lamenting the seeming resurgence of the Catholic Left in the Age of Obama, I would like to point out some good news: This year’s spate of bishops’ assignments have been quite heartening. Since the beginning of 2009, there have been ten appointments announced by…
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President Obama Meets with Catholic Journalists
Deal W. Hudson July 3, 2009 Yesterday, President Obama held a 45-minute meeting in the Roosevelt Room at the White House with some members of the Catholic press. According to the Catholic News Service, those presently included writers from National Catholic Reporter, America, Commonweal, Catholic Digest, Vatican Radio, as well as a (non-Catholic) religion writer from the Washington Post. Rev. Owen Kearns was…
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Why Catholics Should Oppose Sotomayor
Deal W. Hudson July 6, 2009 The confirmation of nominee Sonia Sotomayor as a Supreme Court justice is almost a certainty. She’s a woman, a Hispanic, and the pick of a popular president who leads the party that controls the Senate. Democratic leadership in the Senate is determined to complete hearings before the Judiciary Committee…
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Did President Obama Mislead the Holy Father?
Deal W. Hudson July 16, 2009 In the late afternoon of July 10, President Obama met privately with Pope Benedict XVI for just over 30 minutes. According to official Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi, S.J., “The president explicitly expressed his commitment to reducing the numbers of abortions and to listen to the church’s concern on moral issues.” On July…
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Building a Farm Team of New Conservative Leadership
Deal W. Hudson July 29, 2009 What is being done to reinvigorate the next generation of conservatives in politics? Many new initiatives have been announced, but one of the few that will make a difference in coming elections is American Majority. Founded in January 2008, this organization is aggressively recruiting and training a new generation of grassroots activists…
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Reading Into the Church
Deal W. Hudson August 1, 2009 Reading, said Josemar�an Escriv�, has made many a saint. In my own case, it has merely made a convert, but I do continue to read ever more deeply into the mystery that is the Church. Thomas Merton, we recall from Seven Storey Mountain, was started on his road to the…
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The Risks of a “Right” to Healthcare
Deal W. Hudson August 10, 2009 Through the official statements of the USCCB, the Catholic bishops assert that health care is a “basic human right.” Since the release of their 1981 pastoral letter on health and health care, the bishops have consistently argued that the federal government is responsible for establishing “a comprehensive health care system that…
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