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An Interview with Mikhail Gorbachev
Note: In the winter of 2002 I was invited to Moscow by my friend, Tom Murray, to meet and interview Mikhail Gorbachev. Tom was spearheading the building of the first pro-life maternity clinic in Russia, and persisted until it was opened a few years later. President Gorbachev supported Tom and his mission which he reiterated…
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100+ of the Best Catholic Novels
Deal W. Hudson December 6, 2014 The purpose of this list is merely to recommend good books your may or may not be familiar with. I appreciate lists of this kind and look for them at the end of each year to catch up on year’s books I may have missed — which is usually…
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Not Your Usual Christmas Gift Recommendations
Deal W. Hudson Published December 6, 2010 As I was thinking about making some recommendations for Christmas gift giving, I thought I would challenge my friends by asking them to send me only one item – the kind of thing, I said, “you grab running out of a burning house (after the family, of course).”…
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At Mass with Saint John Paul the Great
Deal W Hudson I never thought I would be part of a cheering, waving crowd. After all, I thought myself too old, too sophisticated. Then John Paul II walked out on the stage. It was his Wednesday public audience, and together with my family and six friends I sat only a few rows from the…
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Robert Novak–The Catholic Vote: Does It Swing?
Note: Robert (Bob) Novak was America’s premiere political reporter for decades until he died at age 78 in 2007. His work, starting at the Chicago Sun-Times and continuing through the Wall Street Journal, CNN’s “Crossfire,” and Fox News, is well-chronicled. In 1998, the year of this article, Novak was received into the Catholic Church by…
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Alice Thomas Ellis: He Came Down from Heaven
Editor’s note: Here’s a Catholic writer worth discovering or rediscovering! Alice Thomas Ellis, who died 2002 at age 72, was the pen name of Anna Haycraft. I called her one day out of blue and asked her to write an article for Crisis Magazine and she very kindly sent the one below — it helped that I…
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Sigrid Undset: One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church
Editor’s note: The Norwegian writer Sigrid Undset (1882-1949) is best known for her trilogy Kristin Lavransdatter published between 1920 and 1922. Undset would win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1924 while her many novels, memoirs, hagiographies, and miscellaneous works would make her a major figure in world literature. The same year she was honored with…
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Paul Johnson on Liberty, License & Leadership
Editor’s note,Two years after taking over Crisis Magazine I was privileged to spend the afternoon with Paul Johnson (b. 1928) and his wife Marigold in New York City. Johnson as you may recall is the author of numerous books, the most influential being his 1984 Modern Times: A History of the World from the 1920s…
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Meeting Mother Angelica
Deal W. Hudson Published December 1, 19995 She walks so slowly on her crutches she seems fragile, an impression that doesn’t last for very long. Mother Angelica is made of something as tough as the steel she leans on. This Poor Clare nun from Ohio has single-handedly built a multimillion-dollar television and radio complex on…
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Columns & Articles, Crisis Magazine 1995
Mortimer J. Adler and Multiculturalism DEAL W. HUDSON JANUARY 1, 1995 I am surprised by people who do not recognize the dangers of multiculturalism. They don’t seem to understand that there is much more at stake than “learning about other cultures.” Neither do they see the harm being done to American education and to the…
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