Vox Nova is very pleased to relocate from our original home to become part of the Patheos Catholic Channel. We are grateful to Sam Rocha, the editor here, for his invitation, and are looking forward to making our own contribution to the discussions that go on here.
To our old readers, we hope that you will continue to follow us here and join in the discussions. To our new readers, welcome! Vox Nova is nearly 10 years old, and though there has been considerable turn-over in who blogs here, we, the current bloggers, believe that we continue to hew to the vision laid out at its founding:
It is our goal to investigate and discuss how the church can better carry out its mission in the world. To do this we present our ideas in the areas of politics, economics, ethics, theology, philosophy, history and more in the hope of engaging our readership in substantive conversation….We try to approach issues of concern to the Catholic faithful in a way which transcends the usual divisions that plague the discussions of the Church in America. Our hope is that you are challenged through our writing and that we are likewise challenged through our readers to become more thoughtful and more faithful Catholics.
In the coming days we hope that each of our current bloggers will post a short personal introduction. For now, to introduce the blog, I will point to our new graphic header, featuring the images of Abraham Lincoln, Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King Jr. and Thomas Merton. We chose these four people following the lead of Pope Francis, who singled them out as representative of what is best in America:
A nation can be considered great when it defends liberty as Lincoln did, when it fosters a culture which enables people to “dream” of full rights for all their brothers and sisters, as Martin Luther King sought to do; when it strives for justice and the cause of the oppressed, as Dorothy Day did by her tireless work, the fruit of a faith which becomes dialogue and sows peace in the contemplative style of Thomas Merton.
In these remarks I have sought to present some of the richness of your cultural heritage, of the spirit of the American people. It is my desire that this spirit continue to develop and grow, so that as many young people as possible can inherit and dwell in a land which has inspired so many people to dream.
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