Category: The Christian Review 2016
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A Texas Archbishop Slaps Down “Catholics” for Choice!
Deal W. Hudson September 13, 2016 Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller, M.Sp.S. of San Antonio has shown the kind of leadership so badly needed in this election season. When the oxymoronic Catholics of Choice published an advertisement in the San Antonio newspaper (September 12), Archbishop Garcia-Siller answered with the following broadside. This statement has the ring of a…
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A Bishop Who Proclaims Life Really Matters In the Coming Election
Deal W. Hudson September 14, 2016 Bishop Joseph E. Strickland of Tyler, TX writes on “The Absurdity of Catholics for Choice” (September 13, 2016). You gotta love that title who meaning is crystal clear and allows for zero spins. Not a single sentence in the text of the Bishop’s statement can be spun, especially this…
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Some Bishops Deceive Catholic Voters on Clinton and Trump Abortion Views (Corrected)
Deal W. Hudson September 20, 2016 Yesterday, I stated that the document, “Know the Positions of the Presidential Candidates,” was a product of the USCCB. Today I received a message, friendly, from someone I know at the USCCB who told me the document did not originate with the USCCB, and that the “State Catholic conferences act…
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Catholics and the 2016 Election — We’ve Hit Rock Bottom
Deal W. Hudson September 23, 2016 I never thought that since I became a Catholic thirty-two years ago that I would watch our Church stand by in complicit silence while an aggressive pro-abort, Hillary Clinton, runs for the presidency. Yes, there have been exceptions, and some of them can be found in the articles listed…
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Forget ‘Faithful Citizenship’ – What Would Saint Mother Teresa Do?
Deal W. Hudson October 1, 2016 Once upon a time some Catholics who have heard all their lives that abortion is an intrinsic evil and must be opposed took a look at Clinton and Kaine ticket and thought, “There’s no way I can vote for them. They’re both abortion extremists.” They looked at the Trump/Pence…
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To Vote Your Conscience Starts ‘In the Beginning’
Deal W. Hudson October 4, 2016 As I have watched the spectacle of our Church virtually ignoring the threat of a pro-abortion Clinton/Kaine administration, I started examining my own conscience. I asked myself two questions: Why am I so certain of voting for Trump/Pence? And, what does that have to do with my being Catholic? My impulse…
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Hypocritical Puritanism and the Media Attack on Donald Trump
Deal W. Hudson October 18, 2016 It began with Fox News anchor, Megyn Kelly, seen above, whose opening salvo at Donald Trump in the first presidential debate which set the tone, and content, for the remainder of the campaign. The tone would be self-righteously moralistic and the content would be sex, sex, and more sex. Kelly: “You’ve…
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Dear Aiden, About That Picture You Saw, Let Me Try to Explain….
Deal W. Hudson October 24, 2016 Dear Aiden, Your mother told me you were recently confused by a picture and asked her some questions about it. She has asked me to attempt answering your questions because she knows I am very interested in the subject of clothing and how people dress these days. It’s wonderful…
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An Open Letter to Catholics on Election Eve
Deal W. Hudson and Rev. Mr. Keith Fournier November 7, 2016 Tomorrow is Election Day. There’s no need to elaborate on what’s at stake, beyond asking: Will our nation choose to ratify a Culture of Death? We appeal to all Catholics to set aside personal misgivings about Mr. Trump, many of which are justified and consider…
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A Cultural Outcast Asks: Who Can I Turn To, When Nobody Loves Me?
Deal W. Hudson. November 15, 2016 I’m a regular reader of various cultural blogs and magazines, especially those devoted to books, film, and classical music. Some of them have fed my mind and soul since college days. But over the past six months, I have watched as many of them bash Donald Trump and his “deplorable”…
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