Category: Politics
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Have the Bishops Become Tea Party Republicans?
Deal W. Hudson November 24, 2014 “Since most of the Catholics in Congress are both Democrat and pro-abortion it will be a hard sell, and the dissident Catholics in Congress are not used to getting the hard sell from USCCB lobbyists.” I’M SURPRISED at how few Catholics pundits have noticed the recent letter sent to members…
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Catholics and the Politics of the Death Penalty
Deal W. Hudson Published August 12, 2010 On January 29, the Catholic Mobilizing Network to End the Death Penalty (CMN) was launched. According to its executive director, Karen Clifton, the CMN was created “with the encouragement of the USCCB.” The support of the bishops’ conference is substantial. The Coordinating Committee includes both Kathy Saile, the…
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Palestinian Christians Look Toward the Papal Visit
Deal W. Hudson Published April 9, 2009 Palestinian Christians are wondering aloud whether the upcoming visit of Pope Benedict XVI to the Holy Land will bring greater media attention to their dwindling numbers. They fear that, at the top, the pope’s agenda will be dominated by his continuing effort to smooth the ruffled feathers of…
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Why Catholics Should Take a Position on the Hate-Crimes Bill
Deal W. Hudson Published October 15, 2009 Last Saturday night, President Barack Obama spoke to the nation’s leading homosexual-rights lobbying group, the Human Rights Campaign, in Washington, D.C. Among the several promises Obama made were “to repeal the so-called Defense of Marriage Act” and “to pass an inclusive hate crimes bill.” As I reported a…
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Abortion, Healthcare, and the President’s Priorities
Deal W. Hudson Published November 16, 2009 Two days after the Stupak-Pitts Amendment passed, President Barack Obama made a statement that appeared to accept a ban on abortion funding in health care reform. “I laid out a very simple principle, which is, this is a health care bill, not an abortion bill, and we’re not…
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To Bart Stupak, On the Eve of Battle
Deal W. Hudson Published December 21, 2009 Dear Representative Stupak, Your statement on Saturday following the decision of Sen. Ben Nelson to support the Senate health-care bill was a great relief to millions of Catholics in this country. Your comment that “the Senate abortion language is not acceptable” provided moral and religious clarity at a…
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An Evening with Justice Blackmun on the Anniversary of Roe
Deal W. Hudson January 21, 2010 It was the summer of 1993 – 20 years after Roe v. Wade – and I was teaching a seminar at the Aspen Institute in Colorado with Mortimer Adler. Adler, famous for his Great Books approach to philosophy, was in his late 80s then and had asked for my…
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Mike Huckabee’s Anti-Catholic Problem
Deal W. Hudson Published January 2, 2008 Gov. Mike Huckabee will be a major player in the run for the GOP presidential nomination regardless of whether he finishes first or second in the Iowa Caucus. As in Iowa, Evangelical voters will undergird his efforts in Michigan (Jan 18), South Carolina (Jan 26), and Florida (Jan…
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The Trouble With Mitt Romney’s Pro-Life Conversion
Deal W. Hudson Published December 27, 2007 Mitt Romney, by his own admission, was a pro-abortion governor of Massachusetts. That changed on November 8, 2004 in his second term during a conversation with Dr. Douglas Melton from the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. According to Romney, Dr. Melton dismissed the “moral issue” of cloning embryos for…
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A Little Hard to Believe–Kerry on Abortion
Deal W. Hudson Published On Sunday, John Kerry told Iowa’s Telegraph Herald that he personally opposes abortion and believes that life begins at conception. The exact quote is as follows: “I oppose abortion, personally. I don’t like abortion. I believe life does begin at conception.” Amazing. You may recall the e-letter I sent you in…
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