Category: Popes
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Yes, Pope Francis, President Trump IS Pro-Life
Deal W. Hudson September 15, 2017 It saddens me that Pope Francis refuses to recognize the pro-life intentions and actions of President Trump. The president has made good on his promises to pro-life voters, starting on his first day in office with his restoration of the Mexico City Policy, which he later expanded. Federal funds can no […]
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Pope Francis Gives the Democrats a Gift — But It Won’t Work
Deal W. Hudson April 11, 2018 Writing for NEWSMAX, I explained why Pope Francis’s recent attempt to set abortion and immigration on the equal moral ground cannot be rationally defended. Yes, they have the principle of ‘loving thy neighbor’ in common, but they are distinctly different kinds of moral judgments. Pope Francis get’s it. He […]
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An Interview with John Cornwell
By Deal W. Hudson John Cornwell is controversial. The best-selling author of Hitler’s Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII has been widely condemned both for the quality of his research and for the alleged heterodoxy of his Catholic faith. In his newest book, Breaking Faith: The Pope, the People, and the Fate of Catholicism, […]
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The Spin to Come-The Death of John Paul II
By Deal W. Hudson The television and radio interviews are already taped and waiting to be broadcast. The passing of Pope John Paul II will unleash a media spin on his papacy guaranteed to make you nauseous: This was a pope who cared about the poor but did not engage in dialogue, a pope who […]
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John Paul the Great
By Deal W. Hudson The Catholic Church in 1978 was marked by confusion and conflict. In October of that year, the conclave voted and gave us Pope John Paul II. More than 26 years later there are two dominant views of his papacy. One argues that he renewed the Church and saved it from dissent […]
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At Mass with Saint John Paul the Great
Deal W Hudson I never thought I would be part of a cheering, waving crowd. After all, I thought myself too old, too sophisticated. Then John Paul II walked out on the stage. It was his Wednesday public audience, and together with my family and six friends I sat only a few rows from the […]
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Don’t Call Me a Conservative Catholic Anymore!
Deal W. Hudson Published October 17, 2013 Labels in politics and religion serve a purpose: There are discernible groups and coalitions within and between the worlds of the Church and government. Words used as labels serve the purpose of enabling us to distinguish between one group and the other. But I don’t want to be […]
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Newt Gingrich and the Pope
Deal W. Hudson Published September 28, 2009 When Newt Gingrich was received into the Church last March, the reactions were predictable. The former Speaker of the House was simultaneously welcomed, jeered, and cynically accused of positioning himself to run for president in 2012. When I spoke to him last Friday in his Washington, D.C., office, […]
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