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Why I Can Be Friends with Liberals, Democrats, and Pro-Aborts
Published at The Christian Review Dec. 20, 2015 I’m writing this in response to comments made over the years about friendships I’ve maintained with persons who are diametrically opposed to many of my core values. Most of these comments have the tone of disapproval, others just sound flummoxed with me. Let me say from the start…
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When Catholics Started to Lose Their Cultural Clout
Deal W. Hudson Catholics of my generation probably remember only dimly the furor provoked among Catholics by films in the 1950s directed by Luis Bunuel, “Los Olivados (1950); Roberto Rossellini, “The Miracle” (1951);Otto Preminger, “The Moon is Blue” (1953; Elia Kazan, “Baby Doll” (1956); Roger Vadim, “And God Created Woman” (1956); and Billy Widler, “Some…
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The Self-Examination of a Politically Active Catholic
Deal W. Hudson Over the last four national elections, I have led outreach efforts to Catholic voters, specifically those who attend Mass regularly. During each campaign, I stressed the political importance of the settled, or non-negotiable issues as taught by the Catholic Church: opposition to abortion, same-sex marriage, euthanasia, fetal stem cell experimentation, and religious…
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How It All Comes How It All Comes Down to What Catholics Can’t Do or Won’t Do
Deal W. Hudson (A speech for the “Witness to a Divided Country” Ave Maria Radio Conference, Ypsilanti, MI January 12, 2012) This morning I’m going to ask you three questions. These are questions I don’t intend to answer for you. You must answer them for yourselves. The greatest teacher of all, Socrates, understood the first…
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Why I’m a Poor Student
Deal W. Hudson I’ve often wondered why I worked better with some teachers more than others. Some of my teachers I found personally very appealing, but I would find myself struggling with what they wanted me to know and how to get an angle on knowing it. While others, perhaps not appealing at all, were…
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A Telling Vignette from a Chinese High School Classroom
Deal W. Hudson Published September 30, 2014 Last night I returned from a trip to China where I visited eight of its elite high schools and talked with the students about college education in the United States. In one class I raised the question of how it was possible that a Chinese students could be…
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Tucson as an Object Lesson in Political “Reality”
Deal W. Hudson Published January 17, 2011 Mine was a circuitous route from philosophy to politics, and there are few recent events that better illustrate the difference between my origin and ultimate destination than the tragic event in Tucson last week. Already, the pundits are talking about the “post-Tucson climate” of politics going forward, one…
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From Philly, a Grisly Reminder of Obama’s Past
Deal W. Hudson Published January 24, 2011 The story about President Obama’s support for infanticide as an Illinois state senator came immediately to mind last week when a Philadelphia abortionist wasarrested on eight counts of murder. One of the counts faced by Dr. Kermit Gosnell includes the death of a woman following an abortion at…
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Egypt and the Loss of U.S. Prestige in the Middle East
Deal W. Hudson Published January 31, 2011 The upheaval in Egypt appears to be a political revolution in its purest form: a united, non-violent effort against a military dictator from across the spectrum of Egyptian people, including leftists, Christians, Muslims, Arab nationalists, Nasserites, and the Muslim Brotherhood. More than 100 Egyptians have been killed, with…
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An iPhone App to Take to Confession
Deal W. Hudson Published February 14, 2011 Recently I paid my $1.99 and downloaded the new iPhone app for confession. Seeing the app was subtitled “a Roman Catholic App,” I figured it wasn’t going to suffer from “Catholicism Lite.” (Whether the new app would meet the demanding standard of John Allen’s “Taliban Catholicism,” I was…
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