Truth is, the whole thing is sickening, and this may be Jackson’s greatest achievement. By juxtaposing youthful joie de vivre with the reality of death in the mud, he has poignantly reminded us of the colossal waste of war. Read more
December 26, 2018
Speaking Truth With Love: An Interview With Siobhan O’Connor
December 26, 2018 By Jeannine Pitas
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2018 has not been an easy year for Catholics around the world as more and more cases of sexual abuse of children have come to light. One particularly hard-hit community was my own native Diocese of Buffalo, NY. In October of this year I was shocked to learn that Siobhan O’Connor – former assistant to Bishop of Buffalo Richard Malone – had leaked documents to a local news station revealing that the Catholic Church’s leader in Western New York had… Read more
December 25, 2018
Merry Christmas and Thank You for your Support
December 25, 2018 By David Cruz-Uribe
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Friends of Vox Nova, on behalf of all the regular contributors, I want to wish each and every one of you a blessed Christmas. May the Christ Child, who brought light into the darkness of our world, continue to pour his light into your hearts. May the love of God, which is beyond all understanding, a love made flesh, be his gift to you this Christmas day. In addition, because of your readership, we have again earned a small royalty… Read more
December 18, 2018
As Guest, As Brother: Verse for Advent
December 18, 2018 By Mark Gordon
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Of all the liturgical seasons, Advent is uniquely colored by mystery, longing, and paradox. It is therefore the season most susceptible to the power of poetry, a form far more capable of channeling these three movements than prose. As Madeline L’Engle writes in her Advent poem, After Annunciation, “This is the irrational season / when love blooms bright and wild. / Had Mary been filled with reason / there’d have been no room for the child.” In this poem, On the Mystery of… Read more
December 14, 2018
He Comes in the Silence: Verse for Advent
December 14, 2018 By Mark Gordon
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Of all the liturgical seasons, Advent is uniquely colored by mystery, longing, and paradox. It is therefore the season most susceptible to the power of poetry, a form far more capable of channeling these three movements than prose. As Madeline L’Engle writes in her Advent poem, After Annunciation, “This is the irrational season / when love blooms bright and wild. / Had Mary been filled with reason / there’d have been no room for the child.” Advent is also the season of silence,… Read more
December 12, 2018
Miriam of Nazareth, Our Lady of Guadalupe
December 12, 2018 By Jeannine Pitas
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Today, December 12, Catholics around the world have celebrated the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, commemorating the Virgin Mary’s appearance to St. Juan Diego on Tepeyac Hill outside present-day Mexico City in 1531. Since that time, when the young Juan managed to convince the church authorities to build a church in her honor, this particular image of Mary has come to assume a multiplicity of meanings. Known as the Patroness of the Americas, she is held sacred by the… Read more
December 4, 2018
We Wait: Verse For Advent
December 4, 2018 By Mark Gordon
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Of all the liturgical seasons, Advent is uniquely colored by mystery, longing, and paradox. It is therefore the season most susceptible to the power of poetry, a form far more capable of channeling these three movements than prose. As Madeline L’Engle writes in her Advent poem, After Annunciation, “This is the irrational season / when love blooms bright and wild. / Had Mary been filled with reason / there’d have been no room for the child.” Advent is also the season of silence,… Read more
December 1, 2018
This Advent, Remember the Poor
December 1, 2018 By Mark Gordon
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Pray for everyone you encounter this Advent, but remember the poor in a special way. Resolve to be Christ to them this year. In return, they’ll become Christ to you, and your Advent will be doubly blessed. Read more
December 1, 2018
The Season of Our Longing
December 1, 2018 By Julia Smucker
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There is always something about Advent that appeals to me deeply. Maybe, I’ve sometimes thought, it’s something about the sense of a fresh start as we begin a new liturgical year. It may also have something to do with the fact that it was close to the beginning of Advent when I first began attending Mass regularly, and thus I have loved Advent ever since I was coming to love liturgy. Maybe Advent simply appeals to my craving for structure… Read more
November 29, 2018
“We Found Something”
November 29, 2018 By Matt Talbot
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Those were the first words I heard when I came to after my colonoscopy this last February 10. I’d had some symptoms over the Christmas holiday last year – some bloody stools, a general sense of weakness, and so on – but was hoping against hope that it was just a terrible diet plus middle aged aches and pains. Nope – it was cancer. Hearing that news made the world go kind of grey – I felt both numb and… Read more
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