Tag: Bart Stupak
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To Bart Stupak, On the Eve of Battle

Deal W. Hudson Published December 21, 2009 Dear Representative Stupak, Your statement on Saturday following the decision of Sen. Ben Nelson to support the Senate health-care bill was a great relief to millions of Catholics in this country. Your comment that “the Senate abortion language is not acceptable” provided moral and religious clarity at a…
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Interpreting Bart Stupak

Deal W. Hudson Published December 28, 2009 In 1917, Wallace Stevens published “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,” a poem now firmly ensconced in every anthology of American poetry. Generations of students have read it as a lesson in perspectivism – how the imagination can see the same thing under a variety of guises. Bart…