Deal W. Hudson

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

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

Hudson has written, edited or contributed to several books. In 2004, he wrote the online guide "How to Vote Catholic". Hudson has written for the Los Angeles Times, Slate. 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.

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.

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.

Hudson was born in Denver, Colorado. college at the University of Texas-Austin, but converted to Catholicism in 1984. 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. He discusses this conversion in his memoir, An American Conversion.

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