What is Conservatism? Part III

Last updated on: August 4, 2008 at 1:54 pm By jonathanjonesuiwdpt

What is Conservatism? Part II What is Conservatism? Part I Conservatism in the tradition of Burke, Johnson, Coleridge, and Newman is the political secularization of the doctrine of original sin, employed as an adjective of sentiment. Any general principle should always be tempered by experience, by prudence. And as circumstances vary, the products of human organization should observe its own traditions and historical experience, which take precedence over principals drawn up as a priori notions divorced from history and immediate... Read more

Some Brief Answers To Common Questions American Catholics Are Asking Themselves in 2008 Updated

Last updated on: August 4, 2008 at 5:00 am By hejblade

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A Prophet For Our Time Dies

Last updated on: August 4, 2008 at 1:11 am By Radical Catholic Mom

One of my favorite authors, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, died in Russia today. Solzhenitsyn’s most famous work, “Gulag Archipelago” recounts the horrors of the Stalin concentration camps where he spent eight years of his life. God bless him. God bless his art. And thank God he had the courage to speak out against the terrible atrocities and injustices that the 20th Century offered. I recommend his famous Harvard 1978 speech.: Read more

Magisterium, tradition, and the legitimacy of dissent

Last updated on: August 3, 2008 at 6:19 pm By Iafrate Michael

A Vox Nova commenter recently asked the following: What does adherence [to the Magisterium] mean? How much can we criticize? How do we disagree? What should we be compelled to believe? . . . What role does the magisterium have in our lives as Catholics? I won’t attempt to deal with each of these questions here. In terms of “What should we be compelled to believe,” it has been established that Catholic teaching is comprised of a “hierarchy of truths”... Read more

My Pictures of the Maronite Catholic Church in Austin

Last updated on: August 3, 2008 at 4:58 pm By Radical Catholic Mom

I just returned to AK from traveling all over Texas and Kansas so I will be posting on some of my experiences. I thought some of you at Vox Nova might enjoy. I visited Our Lady’s Maronite Catholic Church in Austin, TX. To read up on my experience where I compare the Maronite liturgy to the Byzantine and Roman liturgies, you may click here. The first picture is that of the curtain that separates the altar from the people. The... Read more

Politics as Usual, Flip-Flop or Ability To Compromise?

Last updated on: August 3, 2008 at 5:18 am By hejblade

Obama says he still is opposed to drilling off-shore for oil, but he is willing to support it in a compromise bi-partisan energy bill. He is saying it is a pragmatic decision on his part. How do you read this? Is it politics as usual, saying one thing and doing something else? Is he flip-flopping? Or is he showing us that he intends to be bi-partisan if he gets into office, and he is willing to listen to other voices than... Read more

Vox Nova on the Internets: Loury v. McWhorter

Last updated on: August 2, 2008 at 8:26 am By Edward Blackadder

If you’re looking for an insightful, entertaining, and often provocative discussion of race in America, you would be hard pressed to do better than watching the “diavlogs” at Bloggingheads.tv between John McWhorter and Glenn Loury. (more…) Read more

Do something more Catholic sometimes

Last updated on: August 2, 2008 at 12:21 am By Policraticus

Every now and again a post at Vox Nova will initiate serious discussion and argument among contributors and readers. That’s a splendid affair. Other times, a post will generate caustic and spiteful rhetoric. That’s a squalid affair. But the latter is not the most discouraging scenario, in my opinion. Rather, I find relentless debate to be an occasion of sadness. For example, a recent post on a McCain ad saw two or three readers spend the better part of four... Read more

Pathetic low for McCain campaign

Last updated on: August 1, 2008 at 5:25 pm By Policraticus

UPDATE: Obama calls McCain campaign cynical, not racist. This seems to sum up rather accurately the amateurism McCain exhibits on a national campaigning scale. In times when half your base is in a panic and you don’t really know what you stand for, having to read prepared speeches every campaign stop and giving answers tomorrow to the media’s questions today, cynicism is just a later chapter in the book of desperation politics. It’s third party for me this time. Seen... Read more

Who said, "To obey is better than sacrifice"?