Category: Spirituality
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The Alternative World Youth Day
Deal W. Hudson Buckle your seatbelts. This is going to be fun. As you know, things are in full swing at World Youth Day in Toronto right now, and I’d love to be there. It’d be great to see the pope and the thousands of young people from around the world celebrating their faith together.…
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Rome Rejects While the Bishops “Reflect”
Deal W. Hudson Just when I thought it was going to be a slow news week, two big stories break practically on top of each other. I was in the middle of writing up some thoughts on the Plenary Council, as I promised in my last e-letter, but I think I’ll have to put that…
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“Voice of the Faithful” Shows Its Stripes
Deal W. Hudson There was quite a flurry in the news yesterday involving our favorite dissident group, Voice of the Faithful (VOTF). It seems that yet another bishop has banned a VOTF affiliate from meeting in a North Andover, Massachusetts parish. Auxiliary Bishop Emilio S. Allue from the Boston Archdiocese wrote that “the activities and…
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A Dark Day for Pro-Abortionists
Deal W. Hudson Well, the dust has finally begun to settle from the election flurry earlier this week. Now that things are starting to clear up, it’s time for us to step back and assess the situation. There certainly were some unexpected upsets, but what I think was the most unexpected – and the most…
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War for Oil?
Deal W. Hudson Yesterday I mentioned the problems that can arise when people make faulty assumptions about your motives based solely on your actions. This isn’t just a problem when solving disputes in the Church, though; I’ve seen it happen time and again when people discuss the possibility of war in Iraq. I know a…
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Are Your Kids Safe in a Catholic College?
Deal W. Hudson Let me warn you up front: You’re not going to like this one bit. Last time I wrote to you, I mentioned the great success of the March for Life. To me, one of its most successful aspects was the huge crowd of young people it attracted. The event was a family…
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Rick Santorum Is Right
Deal W. Hudson I’ve been in the media business long enough to have learned a thing or two about the way the system works. Sometimes I learned those lessons the hard way after being misquoted or having my statements taken out of context by an unfriendly reporter. It’s like playing the old game of telephone:…
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Lobbying For The Bishops
Deal W. Hudson There are two things I need to bring to your attention… First, the biannual meeting of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) in Colorado came and went last week. Of course, you’d never know it from the minimal coverage. This is a shame since the bishops released a very important…
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The Marriage Amendment Fails… For Now
Deal W. Hudson As you probably already heard, an initial cloture vote – to end debate on the bill and send the amendment to a final up-or-down vote – was held on Wednesday. Unfortunately, the motion failed by a 48-50 margin. It’s a serious setback to the FMA’s progress, to be sure, but not a…
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Reaction to the State of the Church in America
Deal W. Hudson February 2006 My response to the report, State of the Catholic Church in America. “Bishops do not like to be scrutinized by the laity” was the reaction of a friend of mine to the news of this survey. He predicted that the bishops would be irritated, to say the least, at the presumption…
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