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Meeting Cervantes — the Man Who Invented the Novel
Deal W. Hudson February 1, 2018 Some books engross you immediately, that’s certainly true of William Egginton’s The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World (Bloomsbury, 2016). I was, like many, familiar with Cervantes’s place at the beginning of a literary tradition called the “novel,” but I started the book somewhat suspicious of…
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The Catholic King Who Supported the Muslim Invasion of Europe
Deal W. Hudson February 5, 2018 That Catholic king was Francis I who in the 16th century openly sided with Suleiman the Magnificent in his Muslim wars on Christians in Eastern Europe. The reason was simple, as explained by historian John Julius Norwich in Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis 1, Charles V, and Suleiman the Magnificent…
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The Exquisite Beauty of the Familiar
Deal W. Hudson February 13, 2018 This morning I burst into song: “Oh, what a beautiful morning, oh, what a beautiful day.” My son, Cyprian, now twenty-one, he had not heard me do that in while, and half-smiled, half-frowned. But as I sang the lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein II and the melody of Richard Rodgers,…
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Holy Land Religious Leaders claim, “POLITICAL PERSECUTION LEADS TO THE CLOSURE OF CHRISTIANITY’S HOLIEST SITE”
Deal W. Hudson February 27, 2018 The following is a press release and statement from THEOPHILOS III, Patriarch of Jerusalem; FRANCESCO PATTON, Custos of the Holy Land; NOURHAN MANOUGIAN, Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem regarding their decision to close the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to protest Israel’s taxation of Church property. Readers should be aware that…
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The Simple Reason Why We Should Hope Hell Exists
Deal W. Hudson March 31, 2018 You’ve heard that Pope Francis may not believe in the existence of Hell, but all Catholics should hope he is wrong. Why? The simple reason is this: Take away Hell, and you have taken away human freedom, dignity, and the imago Dei (Genesis 1.27). It’s relatively simple, also, to understand why…
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Pope Francis Gives the Democrats a Gift — But It Won’t Work
Deal W. Hudson April 11, 2018 Writing for NEWSMAX, I explained why Pope Francis’s recent attempt to set abortion and immigration on the equal moral ground cannot be rationally defended. Yes, they have the principle of ‘loving thy neighbor’ in common, but they are distinctly different kinds of moral judgments. Pope Francis get’s it. He…
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What My Son Needs to Know Which I Learned Too Late
Deal W. Hudson May 8, 2018 The one vivid memory I have of my grandmother, Nana, my father’s mother, was her sitting in a rocking chair smoking one cigarette after another while I sat on the floor of her darkened bedroom, the tall curtains drawn and the air filled with smoke. It was the annual,…
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Sed Contra: Lessons From Two Decades as a Catholic
FEBRUARY 1, 2002 Deal W. Hudson Twenty years ago this month, I was received into the Catholic Church. The late Archbishop Thomas Donellan of Atlanta had given Rev. Richard Lopez permission to perform my confirmation privately. Father Lopez chose the chapel at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, the cancer home run by the Hawthorne Dominican…
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Sed Contra: The End of Narcissism
NOVEMBER 1, 2001 DEAL W. HUDSON September 11 was the beginning of a sea change in American life. It’s not the end of the pursuit of happiness, as Christopher Hitchens called it in the Evening Standard, but the end of narcissism. You can see it on the faces of President George W. Bush, Secretary of…
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The 120 Best Film Soundtracks
Going to the trouble of making a list such as this may seem trivial to some, but, in fact, the tradition of musical scoring for cinema should be considered the ‘classical music’ you’ve liked but didn’t know it was ‘classical.’ Let me explain. I will assume you, like I, enjoy an immediately rapport with great…
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