Category: Un-Tributes
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Bishop Rene Henry Gracida talks about the election of Pope Francis and the questions hanging over it. June 29, 2018
https://avemariaradio.net/audio-archive/church-and-culture-june-30-2018-hour-1/
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Interpreting Bart Stupak
Deal W. Hudson Published December 28, 2009 In 1917, Wallace Stevens published “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,” a poem now firmly ensconced in every anthology of American poetry. Generations of students have read it as a lesson in perspectivism – how the imagination can see the same thing under a variety of guises. Bart…
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An Evening with Justice Blackmun on the Anniversary of Roe
Deal W. Hudson January 21, 2010 It was the summer of 1993 – 20 years after Roe v. Wade – and I was teaching a seminar at the Aspen Institute in Colorado with Mortimer Adler. Adler, famous for his Great Books approach to philosophy, was in his late 80s then and had asked for my…
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The Trouble With Mitt Romney’s Pro-Life Conversion
Deal W. Hudson Published December 27, 2007 Mitt Romney, by his own admission, was a pro-abortion governor of Massachusetts. That changed on November 8, 2004 in his second term during a conversation with Dr. Douglas Melton from the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. According to Romney, Dr. Melton dismissed the “moral issue” of cloning embryos for…
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Chris Matthews, John Allen, and Odious Comparisons
Deal W. Hudson Published February 10, 2011 John Allen, senior correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter, routinely uses the phrase “Taliban Catholicism” to describe “an exaggerated allergy to anything that smacks of secularism, liberalization, or corruption by modernity – an angry form of the faith that knows only how to excoriate and condemn.” Allen says…
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