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Deal Wyatt Hudson (born November 20, 1949) is an American conservative political activist.

Hudson is the former publisher and editor of Crisis Magazine and InsideCatholic.com. He is currently president of the Morley Institute for Church and Culture. Hudson also hosts the radio show Church and Culture[1] on Ave Maria Radio and serves as publisher and editor of The Christian Review.

Hudson is the former Chairman and founder of Catholic Advocate.[2] In September, 2020, Hudson was named a Senior Fellow of the Albertus Magnus Institute in Sacramento, California.[3]

Life

Hudson was born in Denver, Colorado. He attended the University of Texas-Austin and converted to Catholicism in 1984.[4][5] He discusses this conversion in his memoir, An American Conversion.

In 1980, Hudson became a lecturer in philosophy at Mercer University. Raised as a Protestant, Hudson became a Southern Baptist while attending college, converted to Catholicism in 1984.[4][5]

In 1989, Hudson became a professor at Fordham University. In 1994, Cara Poppas accused Hudson of initiating a sexual encounter with her when she was an 18 year old Freshman at Fordham. Hudson admitted his guilt and resigned from his tenured position at Fordham. In 1996 he paid a $30,000 settlement with Poppas to end a lawsuit.[6]

In 1995 Hudson became publisher of the conservative Roman Catholic magazine, Crisis. Johnson also served as director of Catholic Outreach for President George W. Bush's 2000 and 2004 US presidential campaigns.[7]

Hudson has written, edited or contributed to several books. In 2004, he wrote the online guide "How to Vote Catholic".[8] Hudson has written for the Los Angeles Times,[9] Slate.[10] The Wall Street Journal and the Spectator. Among Hudson's activities outside politics is his sponsorship of an annual poetry luncheon at the beginning of Advent each Christmas season.[11]

Hudson is credited with creating an outreach to Catholic voters in the 2016 presidential campaign of Donald Trump.[12]

See also

Publications

References

  1. ^ "Church and Culture". Ave Maria Radio. January 21, 2014. Retrieved November 26, 2019.
  2. ^ "Catholic Advocate". catholicadvocate.com.
  3. ^ https://magnusinstitute.org/members/dealhudson/profile/
  4. ^ a b Varacalli, Joseph A. (2001). Bright Promise, Failed Community: Catholics and the American Public Order. Lexington Books. p. 45. ISBN 0-7391-0292-3.
  5. ^ a b von Hildebrand, Alice (January 2004). "Glorious Broadmindedness" Archived March 3, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, This Rock. Retrieved 4/16/09.
  6. ^ "The Real Deal: How a Philosophy Professor With a Checkered Past Became the Most Influential Catholic Layman in George W. Bush's Washington". www.nationalcatholicreporter.org.
  7. ^ Boyer, Peter J. (September 1, 2008). "Party Faithful". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved November 26, 2019.
  8. ^ Hudson, Deal W. (2004). "How to Vote Catholic"
  9. ^ Hudson, Deal W. (January 23, 2000)."Catholics and the GOP: an Uneasy Fit", Los Angeles Times, page M-5.
  10. ^ Hudson, Deal W. (April 1, 2005). "Contextual Conservatism", Slate.
  11. ^ Salmon, Jacqueline L. (December 6, 2008). "Getting Into Christmas Spirit is Pure Poetry for Catholic Group", The Washington Post, p. B7.
  12. ^ F.H. Buckley, "Catholic surprise: another way Trump is remaking the GOP", "The New York Post", December 19, 2016.
  13. ^ Hudson, Deal W. (September 9, 2019). How to Keep from Losing Your Mind: Educating Yourself Classically to Resist Cultural Indoctrination. TAN Books. ISBN 978-1505113525.

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