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To Care About Life is to Care About Everything
Deal W. Hudson During the 2012 presidential campaign the most oft-repeated charge against pro-life social conservatives was that they not care about a human life after the moment of birth. When I was surprised to heard this charge from a Catholic bishop, I decided to write a response, and offered this simple argument: To be…
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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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How to Vote Catholic: A Brief Guide
Deal W. Hudson Voting • Catholics are obliged to participate in politics by voting. • Legislators are elected to serve and protect the common good, human dignity, and rights of human persons. • Voters should have a clear understanding of the principles of Catholic moral and social teaching. • The life issues are dominant in…
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How to Vote Catholic
Deal W. Hudson Introduction Catholics make up about 30 percent of those who vote in national elections. These 30 million Catholics have the power to make our country a better nation—more welcoming to life, more supportive of families, and more effective in its programs to help the poor and marginalized. Furthermore, Catholics who attend Mass…
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Have the Bishops Become Tea Party Republicans?
Deal W. Hudson November 24, 2014 “Since most of the Catholics in Congress are both Democrat and pro-abortion it will be a hard sell, and the dissident Catholics in Congress are not used to getting the hard sell from USCCB lobbyists.” I’M SURPRISED at how few Catholics pundits have noticed the recent letter sent to members…
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Why Catholics Will Not Get Abortion Out of the Health Care Bill
Deal W. Hudson Published August 3, 2009 The Congress and the White House have little to fear from the bishops’ official statements opposing the abortion provisions in the health care bill. Unlike with President Barack Obama’s appearance at Notre Dame, there is no chorus of bishops’ voices rising in protest against the bill; most of…
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The Prince of Darkness Heads Towards the Light
Deal Hudson Published August 20, 2009 “My obituary will now begin with the Valerie Plame story,” Bob Novak said with a wry smile. We were having breakfast at the Army-Navy Club in Washington, D.C., a year after the media furor began over his column identifying Plame as a CIA operative. Novak, of course, was right:…
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A Common Friend to Both – A Visit with Archbishop Chacour
Deal W. Hudson Published August 3, 2010 Archbishop Elias Chacour of the Melkite Church in Israel is a remarkable man. Nominated several times for the Nobel Peace Prize, the author of three books on religion, and now in his early 70s, he’s an internationally recognized leader in the effort to find a peaceful solution to…
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Catholics and the Politics of the Death Penalty
Deal W. Hudson Published August 12, 2010 On January 29, the Catholic Mobilizing Network to End the Death Penalty (CMN) was launched. According to its executive director, Karen Clifton, the CMN was created “with the encouragement of the USCCB.” The support of the bishops’ conference is substantial. The Coordinating Committee includes both Kathy Saile, the…
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How Universities Fool Their Donors
Deal W. Hudson In my 15 years with Crisis Magazine, the Morley Institute, and now InsideCatholic, the conversation that most often reoccurs is the one about the fate of the Catholic university and college. It begins inevitably with alumni complaining about the latest anti-Catholic outbreak on the hallowed grounds of their former college campus and…
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