Category: Social Teaching
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Refuting the Attacks on Mother Teresa
Deal W. Hudson September 10, 2007 The attacks began on August 23, the day Time magazine published an article by David Van Biema, “Mother Teresa’s Crisis of Faith,” quoting her letters to confessors and superiors from over 66 years. In those letters, recently published under the title Mother Teresa: Come to Be My Light(Doubleday), Mother Teresa reveals the…
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Ten Questions with Senator Sam Brownback
Deal W. Hudson September 11, 2007 Senator Sam Brownback was traveling between events while campaigning in New Hampshire when I spoke to him last week. Despite criticism, Brownback has kept the abortion issue at the top of his agenda for the nation, and recently finished among the top three candidates in the Ames Straw Poll.…
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Has James Dobson Created an Opening for Mitt Romney?
Deal W. Hudson October 8, 2007 Mitt Romney is seizing the opportunity created by Dr. James Dobson’s threat of a third party candidacy. The Massachusetts poll is positioning himself as the GOP candidate of choice for religious conservatives. How? In a Boston Globe story from October 5, Eric Fehrnstrom, a spokesman for the Romney campaign, said, “Dr.…
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God Goes on Trial in San Francisco
Deal W. Hudson December 3, 2007 On December 4, Seamus Hasson, president of the Becket Fund, will argue on behalf of public school students who want to keep “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance. Two years ago, the politically liberal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (San Francisco) struck down recitation of the Pledge because it contains “under…
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Obama Advisor is Well Known Dissenting Catholic
Deal W. Hudson December 7, 2007 Marshall Ganz, a Harvard sociologist, was a major force behind organizing Voice of the Faithful (VOTF), a dissenting Catholic organization devoted to “structural” change in the Church. VOTF, you may recall, used the occasion of the priest sex scandals to call for changes in Catholic doctrine such as the…
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Campaign 2008 – A Conversation with John McCain
Deal W. Hudson December 10, 2007 With the opinion polls in motion and the Republican primary back up in the air, Deal Hudson talked to Sen. John McCain about the race, his bruises over immigration, his attraction to the Baptist church, and the role of faith in the voting booth. ♦ ♦ ♦ Deal Hudson:…
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Nation’s Top Pro-Life Judicial Activist Speaks Out on John McCain
Deal W. Hudson February 5, 2008 Manny Miranda is recognized as the leading national activist for conservative judicial appointments. He surprised people by endorsing Sen. John McCain for president, in spite of criticism of the Arizona senator’s role in the “Gang of 14,” a bipartisan effort to deal with the Senate backlog of Bush’s judicial…
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Preacher Man – Barack Obama and the Gospel of Liberalism
Deal W. Hudson February 17, 2008 Pro-life activist John Jakubczyk writes about Barack Obama, “He is an attractive, articulate voice for secular liberalism.” Yes, the message is secular liberalism, but the voice is that of a preacher. Senator Obama sounds more like a minister than the real minister in the race, Gov. Mike Huckabee. When you listen…
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The Face of Pope Benedict XVI
Deal W. Hudson April 21, 2008 His Holiness came to America known as the “enforcer” of Catholic doctrine. He left America as the face of the Church, the face of peace. Benedict XVI arrived in the midst of swirling controversies, but in addressing them, he raised our hearts and minds to the place where all…
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Are Religious Conservatives and the GOP Heading for Divorce?
Deal W. Hudson May 27, 2008 On May 22, 2008, a new era began in the history of what is called the Religious Right. Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain rejected the endorsements of two of the leading Evangelical pastors in the United States, Rev. John Hagee, and Rev. Rod Parsley. The impact of McCain…
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