Deal W. Hudson Explained

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.

In 1989, Hudson became a professor of Philosophy at Fordham University, specializing in St. Thomas Aquinas and modern Thomism. In 1994, Hudson admitted a sexual encounter with a female student at Fordham. He resigned from his tenured position at Fordham in 1995.

In 1995 Hudson became publisher of the conservative Roman Catholic magazine, Crisis. Hudson also served as director of Catholic Outreach for President George W. Bush's 2000 and 2004 US presidential campaigns.^[6]

Hudson has written, edited or contributed to several books. In 2004, he wrote the online guide "How to Vote Catholic".^[7] Hudson has written for the Los Angeles Times,^[8] Slate.^[9] 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.^[10]

Hudson is credited with fashioning an outreach to Catholic voters in the 2016 presidential campaign of Donald Trump.^[11]

See also

• Religion and politics in the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign

Publications

• Understanding Maritain (ed. with Matthew J. Mancini). Mercer University Press, 1987
• The Future of Thomism: The Maritain Sequence (ed. with Dennis William Moran). University of Notre Dame Press, 1992
• Sigrid Undset: On Saints and Sinners (ed.) Ignatius Press, 1994
• Happiness and the Limits of Satisfaction. Rowman & Littlefield, 1995 ; PB
• Public Catholicism: The Challenge of Living the Faith in a Secular American Culture (contributor). Our Sunday Visitor, 1996
• An American Conversion: One Man's Discovery of Beauty and Truth in Times of Crisis. Crossroad, 2003
• Onward, Christian Soldiers: The Growing Political Power of Catholics and Evangelicals in the United States. Simon & Schuster, 2008 ; PB, 2010
• "Issues for Catholic Voters, 2012 Edition". Coauthored with Matt Smith. Amazon Digital Services, 2012 ASIN: B0076RXG42
• Book: 978-1505113525. How to Keep from Losing Your Mind: Educating Yourself Classically to Resist Cultural Indoctrination. Hudson. Deal W.. September 9, 2019. TAN Books .
• Book: Hudson, Deal W. . 365 Days of Catholic Wisdom: A Treasury of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness . 2020-10-08 . Tan Books . 978-1-5051-1714-1.
• Book: Schlapp . Matt . Hudson . Deal W. . The Desecrators: Defeating the Cancel Culture Mob and Reclaiming One Nation Under God . 2022-02-22 . TAN Books . 978-1-5051-2009-7.

External links

• The Christian Review home page
• Church and Culture home page
• Dozens of Hudson's articles archived on CatholiCity.com
• Personal homepage

Notes and References

1. Web site: Church and Culture. Ave Maria Radio. January 21, 2014 . en-US. 2019-11-26.
2. Web site: Catholic Advocate. catholicadvocate.com.
3. https://magnusinstitute.org/members/dealhudson/profile/
4. Book: Varacalli, Joseph A. . Joseph A. Varacalli . Bright Promise, Failed Community: Catholics and the American Public Order . 2001. Lexington Books . 0-7391-0292-3 . 45.
5. von Hildebrand, Alice (January 2004). "Glorious Broadmindedness", This Rock. Retrieved 4/16/09.
6. News: Party Faithful. Boyer. Peter J.. The New Yorker. 2008-09-01. 2019-11-26. en. 0028-792X.
7. Hudson, Deal W. (2004). "How to Vote Catholic"
8. Hudson, Deal W. (January 23, 2000)."Catholics and the GOP: an Uneasy Fit", Los Angeles Times, page M-5.
9. Hudson, Deal W. (April 1, 2005). "Contextual Conservatism", Slate.
10. Salmon, Jacqueline L. (December 6, 2008). "Getting Into Christmas Spirit is Pure Poetry for Catholic Group", The Washington Post, p. B7.
11. https://nypost.com/2016/12/19/catholic-surprise-another-way-trump-is-remaking-the-gop/) F.H. Buckley, "Catholic surprise: another way Trump is remaking the GOP"