Deal Hudson resigns from Crisis magazine, stays with publishing house

Published: 2004-09-23

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Deal W. Hudson, who resigned in August as Catholic outreach adviser to President George W. Bush's re-election campaign, said Sept. 21 that he has tendered his resignation as publisher of the Catholic magazine Crisis, but he will take up a new post as chief fund-raiser for The Morley Publishing Group, which owns Crisis. The announcement of changes, effective at the end of the year, came a month after National Catholic Reporter revealed that Hudson resigned his faculty post at Fordham University in 1994 after an 18-year-old student complained that he had sexual relations with her in his office after taking her to a party at a New York bar and getting her drunk. In an e-mail to supporters, Hudson said the change at Crisis was his "personal decision." Several news reports immediately emerged, however, saying there were strong pressures for his resignation, including from the magazine's founders and three key contributing editors who had threatened to leave the magazine if Hudson did not step down. The Morley Publishing Group said in a Sept. 21 news release that under a reorganization that will take effect at the end of the year, Hudson will step down as publisher of Crisis and "will become director of the newly formed Morley Institute."

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