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  • May 30, 2019

    Ten Books That Have Taught Me About America

    Ten Books That Have Taught Me About America

    Deal W. Hudson July 4, 2018 Though I have not read as widely in American history as I should have, some books have remained with me since I read them.  They have shaped for me a deeper understanding and appreciation of my native country. I’m not going to list some of the obvious suspects such […]

  • May 30, 2019

    Bishop Gracida Calls Excommunication Over Immigration Policy “Scandalous”

    Bishop Gracida Calls Excommunication Over Immigration Policy “Scandalous”

    Deal W. Hudson June 20, 2018 In a radio interview taped today with me, Bishop Rene Henry Gracida, Bishop Emeritus of Corpus Christi, sharply criticized comments made by Bishop Edward Weisenburger of Tuscon regarding canonical penalties for civil servants implementing present immigration policy. “It’s scandalous for the bishop to say that! They did not write the law […]

  • May 30, 2019

    Remembering My Father — How John Wayne Grew Old

    Remembering My Father — How John Wayne Grew Old

    Deal W. Hudson June 6, 2018 He was the strongest man I ever knew. He had will-power of iron. The doctor said to stop smoking. After that day he never smoked another cigarette. Years later a different doctor banned alcohol—not another drink passed his lips for more than thirty years. Of all the money he […]

  • May 30, 2019

    Aretha Franklin, witness to the Gospel

    Aretha Franklin, witness to the Gospel

    Deal W. Hudson May 16, 2019 Amazing Grace is one of the greatest concert movies of all time In January 1972, Aretha Franklin travelled to Los Angeles to join her good friend Pastor James Cleveland and the Southern California Community Choir to record a gospel album. That album, entitled Amazing Grace, went on to become the […]

  • May 30, 2019

    When Elgar turned to the Druids

    When Elgar turned to the Druids

    Deal W. Hudson April 11, 2019 The conductor Martyn Brabbins and Hyperion have given us the second complete recording of Elgar’s 1898 cantata Caractacus. It’s been more than 25 years since the first recording by Richard Hickox on Chandos (1994). Caractacus is an uneven work but possesses enough moments of raw power and pastoral beauty […]

  • May 30, 2019

    You need to watch this German masterpiece

    You need to watch this German masterpiece

    Deal W. Hudson February 28, 2019 Never Look Away tells kind of the story that invites superlatives and deserves them. Based upon the life of painter Gerhard Richter, it tells the story of an artist who lives through the Nazi horror and the communist stranglehold, then escapes to West Berlin where, after much trial and error, […]

  • May 30, 2019

    Films that take you into the wilderness with Jesus

    Films that take you into the wilderness with Jesus

    Deal W. Hudson March 14, 2019 It’s hard to understand why any director making a film about Jesus would ignore the face-off with Lucifer. Cecil B DeMille has his mind elsewhere in his 1927 King of Kings. Himself succumbing to carnal temptation, DeMille opens his film with a barely clad Mary Magdalene, now a prostitute […]

  • May 30, 2019

    A painter of pure, radiant happiness

    A painter of pure, radiant happiness

    Deal W. Hudson February 14, 2019 Ali Cavanaugh’s figurative art has deep spiritual roots, discovers Deal Hudson Ali Cavanaugh is a painter in pursuit of the miracle of human existence. A Catholic convert who was received in 2002, she says this of her faith: “The Blessed Mother is my constant and helps me with every […]

  • May 30, 2019

    Ken Russell’s ‘The Devils’ is badly misunderstood

    Ken Russell’s ‘The Devils’ is badly misunderstood

    Deal W. Hudson February 7, 2019 Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, recently condemned the New York Times for using a picture of “a nun in habit standing behind a jail-like façade” to accompany a review of Jacques Rivette’s 1966 film La Religieuse (“The Nun”). Based on a novel by Diderot, it depicts the […]

  • May 30, 2019

    The extraordinary power of ‘transcendental’ films

    The extraordinary power of ‘transcendental’ films

    Deal W. Hudson January 24, 2019 Deal Hudson on the shattering effect of movies that defy our expectations In 1971, Paul Schrader, a film student at UCLA, published a book called Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer. Although he was only 24 years old, his theory of “transcendental style” – expressed in formal academic language […]

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