Vox Nova is pleased to welcome a guest post from long time reader Joseph Georges. More than half of all human fertilizations end in spontaneous abortions at one stage or another – in “miscarriages” if pregnancy ends before the 20th week or in “stillbirths”, as pregnancy losses after the 20th week are generally called. According to a paper by evolutionary geneticist, William Rice, of the University of California, Santa Barbara, “abortion is nearly as common as live-birth for conceptions that… Read more
February 1, 2020
Spontaneous Abortions and Moral Theology
February 1, 2020 By voxnovablog
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January 26, 2020
An Unquiet City
January 26, 2020 By Matt Talbot
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I’m a member of a Facebook group devoted to St. Therese of Lisieux, and there were a couple of recent posts which were, or could be easily read as, partisan political posts. Those posts quickly – and predictably – became a morass of accusations and assuming bad faith and all the rest, and I can’t imagine there is anyone reading this post that doesn’t know what I mean. There are genuinely important and valid issues to discuss at this point… Read more
December 29, 2019
There are many kinds of holy families
December 29, 2019 By Jeannine Pitas
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Not that long ago, I met an Anglican woman who told me that at every service she attends, when the sign of peace is passed, she always shakes the hand of a solitary stranger before that of her spouse and children. “I know how awkward it can feel to attend Mass alone,” she says. “I want to make sure they feel included.” This struck me as a lovely gesture. As a single woman who routinely attends Mass by myself, I’ve… Read more
December 24, 2019
Reflections on the Natvity: A Reposting
December 24, 2019 By David Cruz-Uribe
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I posted this piece eight years ago. It was written as a homily (I was in diaconate formation at the time and wanted to practice) to be delivered to a group of Secular Franciscans. The images I found still haunt me, and this Christmas season I wanted to share them again. Wishing all of our readers a blessed Christmastide! (more…) Read more
December 9, 2019
Thomas Merton on Peace-Making
December 9, 2019 By David Cruz-Uribe
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I received the following reflection second hand via email. It comes from a Catholic Worker email list, and is a lecture by Jim Forest, a long time member of the Catholic Worker, biographer of Dorothy Day, and friend of Thomas Merton. I find his comments about compassion and peace-making to be very pertinent given the divisions in the world today, which is why I thought it appropriate to share on Vox Nova. Despite his physical distance from centers of protest… Read more
November 10, 2019
The Bible and the Death Penalty–Some Preliminary Thoughts
November 10, 2019 By David Cruz-Uribe
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I have been asked by the Consistent Life Network to write 800 words on the Bible and the death penalty. This is to be included in a document that will be some variant of “Consistent Life Answers to Common Questions.” I readily agreed to do this, but on reflection I am realizing that this is a bit tricky, since I need to be able to speak to this in ways that cross Protestant/Catholic divides and several different ways of interpreting… Read more
November 6, 2019
Listening Carefully: A Critique of Father James Martin’s Critique of “Male and Female He Created Them”
November 6, 2019 By Brett Salkeld
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In his response of the recent document of the Congregation for Catholic Education, “Male and Female he Created Them:” Towards a Path of Dialogue on the Question of Gender Theory in Education, Fr. James Martin asks the Congregation, and Catholics more generally, to “Listen to the L.G.B.T. person.” It is true that in the section on listening (the first of three sections in the document, the following two being reasoning and proposing), the Congregation is concerned not primarily with the… Read more
November 1, 2019
A Litany of Saints for Peace, Life and Conscience
November 1, 2019 By Julia Smucker
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In a time when fear holds so much sway, when violence is so often touted and life and dignity disrespected, may the witness of martyrs and messages of prophets strengthen us to walk the Gospel Way in the service of the Prince of Peace. For the strength to lay down all instruments of death, giving our first and greatest allegiance to Jesus Christ the eternal king rather than fight the wars of men, Saint Marcellus of Tangier and Saint Martin… Read more
September 27, 2019
Our Donation of our Royalties
September 27, 2019 By David Cruz-Uribe
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To our readers: just a note to let you know that thanks to your readership, the blog has made a donation to Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley. Read more
September 26, 2019
Greta Thunberg as an echo of Simone Weil
September 26, 2019 By Jeannine Pitas
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I can’t get the image out of my mind. Ever since her impassioned speech at the United Nations, her tears and rebukes to world leaders, Greta Thunberg has stayed in my mind. In just a year’s time she has gone from an ordinary child to a global icon. A teenager who looks like a child in her unprovocative clothing and slightly untidy braids, she strikes a cutting image – whether protesting outside the Swedish Parliament, sailing across the Atlantic on… Read more
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