Category: Politics
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Voting Our Values: How to Vote Catholic
Deal W. Hudson June 25, 2016 How to Vote Catholic Voting Our Values Catholics make up about 30 percent of voters in national elections. Depending on voter turnout, these 36 to 39 million Catholics have the power to make our country a better nation that is more welcoming to life, more supportive of families, and…
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The Major Confusion of Catholic Voters – When a Catholic Can Differ With the Bishops
Deal W. Hudson July 5, 2016 Catholic voters remain deeply confused about when they are morally obligated to vote as their Bishop or Pope teaches, and when they don’t. The reason is simple: Catholic voters are unaware of the distinction between the handful of issues that are “settled” or “non-negotiable,” and those that are not, meaning…
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The FBI Lets Hillary Walk Free – Politics Strips the Blindfold From Justice
Deal W. Hudson July 5, 2016 With the news that the Federal Bureau of Investigation recommends no charges be brought against Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee for President of the United States, we have come to the point in the history of our nation that we can no longer have trust and respect for our legal…
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Tim Kaine, Catholic Dissent, and Jesuit Shtick
Deal W. Hudson August 2, 2016 With the nomination of Sen. Tim Kaine, Catholic voters once again face a decision about whether or not to send a pro-abortion, dissenting Catholic to Number One Observatory Circle, the official residence of the Vice President of the United States. For the past eight years, Vice President Joseph Biden has lived…
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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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A Texas Archbishop Slaps Down “Catholics” for Choice!
Deal W. Hudson September 13, 2016 Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller, M.Sp.S. of San Antonio has shown the kind of leadership so badly needed in this election season. When the oxymoronic Catholics of Choice published an advertisement in the San Antonio newspaper (September 12), Archbishop Garcia-Siller answered with the following broadside. This statement has the ring of a…
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Some Bishops Deceive Catholic Voters on Clinton and Trump Abortion Views (Corrected)
Deal W. Hudson September 20, 2016 Yesterday, I stated that the document, “Know the Positions of the Presidential Candidates,” was a product of the USCCB. Today I received a message, friendly, from someone I know at the USCCB who told me the document did not originate with the USCCB, and that the “State Catholic conferences act…
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An Open Letter to Catholics on Election Eve
Deal W. Hudson and Rev. Mr. Keith Fournier November 7, 2016 Tomorrow is Election Day. There’s no need to elaborate on what’s at stake, beyond asking: Will our nation choose to ratify a Culture of Death? We appeal to all Catholics to set aside personal misgivings about Mr. Trump, many of which are justified and consider…
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Vatican Helps the Catholic Left Create a Non-Negotiable — Climate Change
Deal W. Hudson December 15, 2016 The Catholic Left has been at a political disadvantage for decades. As a result, the Democratic Party has suffered the same disadvantage. As proponents of abortion on demand, the Catholic Left has struggled to influence Catholic voters, in spite of their dissent. In fact, transgressing the non-negotiable issues of the Church has…
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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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