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I Am About to Snap!
Deal W. Hudson April 25, 2016 I am 66 years old, and I am about to snap. Do you even need to ask, “Why?” As I watch our nation engrossed in a debate over the morality of bathroom selection, I cannot recognize the place where I was born, raised, lived my life. I feel that…
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Why Does a Catholic Diocese Provide Syringes?
Deal W. Hudson April 25, 2016 While I was the publisher and editor of Crisis Magazine, I chronicled the plight of the Albany Diocese in Upstate, NY under the former leadership of now Bishop Emeritus Howard J. Hubbard. His stewardship of the diocese was a test case in the failures of the progressive policies of many churchmen…
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The 100 Best Catholic Novels I Know
Deal W. Hudson June 14, 2016 In offering this list, I’m not making an attempt to define the “Catholic novel,” which would be a very foolish enterprise. There are many reasons why a novel can, and sometimes should be called “Catholic,” but to attach that impulse to a grand metaphysic or aesthetic theory would require…
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My Top 25 Recommended Audiobooks, The Best of the Best
Deal W. Hudson June 16, 2016 Good books become even better when read aloud by a skilled performer. A recent example is the recording by famed British actor, Edward Fox, of Anthony Trollope’s The Warden, the first of the Barchester novels. Fox’s deep-voiced, droll delivery has opened Trollope’s world to me as never before. Homer, the…
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30 Films About Faith You May Not Know
Deal W. Hudson June 17, 2016 I’m hoping that you, the reader, will discover on this list some films that will bring you enjoyment and, perhaps, insight and renewed aspiration toward the source of all beauty. It’s regrettable that educators have yet to regard cinema as an important artistic tradition, one that should be studied…
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Trump Among The Evangelicals
Deal W. Hudson June 21, 2016 It was supposed to be a meeting of 300, but over the course of a few weeks, it burgeoned to over 1000 attendees. The setting was hardly intimate, but given the circumstances, the Evangelical organizers did a good job of making it worth our while. Donald Trump showed another…
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Beauty: The Way to Heaven Or Hell?
Deal W. Hudson June 22, 2016 What did Fyodor Dostoevsky mean in The Idiot (1869) when one of his characters asserts, “Beauty will save the world?” Taken at face value, it’s a claim that beauty plays a role in the salvation of us all. It also contains the implication that the culture surrounding us, as the platform…
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CATHOLIC OUTREACH AND THE CLERGY: What Happens From a Layman’s Point of View
Deal W. Hudson June 24, 2016 I am giving a presentation tonight, and I thought I would share my outline with TCR readers. CATHOLIC OUTREACH AND THE CLERGY: What Happens From a Layman’s Point of View An Outline Deal W. Hudson Good-will, but naive, Catholic laypersons go to one of their priests to talk about…
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Voting Our Values: How to Vote Catholic
Deal W. Hudson June 25, 2016 How to Vote Catholic Voting Our Values Catholics make up about 30 percent of voters in national elections. Depending on voter turnout, these 36 to 39 million Catholics have the power to make our country a better nation that is more welcoming to life, more supportive of families, and…
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An Hour with Dana Gioia and His Poetry — A Radio Interview
Deal W. Hudson June 25, 2016 Here is my one-hour interview with poet, critic, essayist, Dana Gioia on “Church and Culture” on the Ave Maria Radio Network. “Church and Culture” were heard on Saturday 2 pm to 4 pm EST from and Sunday 7.30-9.30 pm EST. Dana Gioia reads and discusses his newest book, 99 Poems: New…
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