Category: Social Teaching
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The Bishop’s and Pope’s concern for immigrants is bogged down in politics
At NEWSMAX, I discuss how unintelligible it is when Pope France says the rights of immigrants “always” override national security concerns. That makes no sense at all if you read the Catechism of the Catholic Church. https://www.newsmax.com/dealhudson/alitalia-chartered-children-holy/2018/07/06/id/870296/
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Pope Can’t Equate Caring for Immigrants With Abortion
Deal W. Hudson April 10, 2018 Pope Francis get’s it. He understands why 52 percent of Catholic voters helped to elect Donald Trump in the face of fierce resistance from nearly all the of the U.S. Bishops, and the pontiff himself. What Pope Francis gets is precisely what has historically pushed Catholic Democrats to vote…
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NEA Funds Anti-Christian ‘Jerry Springer’ Play With Taxpayer Money
Deal W. Hudson January 30, 2018 Once again the National Endowment for the Arts is in hot water, and deservedly so. A musical entitled, “Jerry Springer, the Opera,” is now being performed in previews at an off-Broadway theatre, The New Group. The musical is ferociously and deliberately anti-Catholic, while The New Group receives substantial NEA…
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Buckley’s ‘Republic of Virtue’ Chronicles America’s Fight for Integrity
Deal W. Hudson December 18, 2017 Frank Buckley, a law professor at the Scalia School of Law at George Mason University, has written an extraordinary book that deserves to find a wide readership and, hopefully, to wield considerable influence on the future of U.S. politics. Why such large claims? Simply put, “The Republic of Virtue”…
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Contempt for Trump Undermining European Civility
Deal W. Hudson October 11, 2017 When was the last time you told a visitor from another country that their head of state was a “fool” or a “disgrace”? When is the last time you visited a country and lectured those you met on the “horrors” of their elected national leader? The perpetrators of mass…
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Mass Hysteria Driving Attacks on the President
Deal W. Hudson August 30, 2017 I know I am not alone in being bewildered by the daily pummeling of President Trump throughout the media. We are witnessing something more than the usual criticism any politician can expect. Instead, it’s become a kind of madness, where the president can be depicted with his head cut off, standing…
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Vatican Stance on Procreation Appears at Odds With Church Teaching
Deal W. Hudson March 7, 2017 On March 3, many Catholics were shocked to read that Vatican conference speaker, Peter Raven remarked, “Pope Francis has urged us to have fewer children to make the world more sustainable.” The notion that the Pope would say such a thing strained credulity. However, the clarification published three days later does not put…
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