It amazes me that there are some who actually label Henri de Lubac as a heterodox theologian. Bracketing out the debate between Rahner and de Lubac on the gratuity of grace, it would appear that such accusations could only come from someone who has either not read de Lubac or has read de Lubac but lacks a comprehensive view of the theological traditions of the Catholic Church. In anticipation of my next post on the Ressourcement movement, I thought I’d... Read more
Via DarwinCatholic, Arthur Brooks has an article up at NRO exploring the poor giving record of Barach and Michelle Obama: After Mr. and Mrs. Obama released their tax returns, the press quickly noticed that, between 2000 and 2004, they gave less than one percent of their income to charity, far lower than the national average. Their giving rose to a laudable five percent in 2005 and six percent in 2006, with the explosion of their annual income to near $1... Read more
My advice is not to be afraid. Fear does not let any person or people live their lives to the full. Quite simply, they have to run the risk of peace. And this is the only means to obtain real and total security. The political powers have an alternative: either peace, and they will have security, or no peace and extremism will grow and insecurity will increase. They have to choose. And they should choose peace. —Archbishop Michel Sabbah Read more
It’s not exactly an April Fools’ gag, but this Pythonist found it quite amusing. Read more
It’s not secret around here that I am a big fan of the kind of authentic corporatism espoused by Pope Pius XI in his important encyclical Quadragesimo Anno. An important implication of the harmonious approach to the common good is that the various corporate entities are good in their own ends, including unions, guilds, voluntary associations, and yes, corporations. We need to acknowledge that the corporation is a core component of a just social order. For sure, we can criticize... Read more
In various quarters, the Catholicity of this blog has been called into question. Apparently that calling has not been confined to simply the blogosphere. We received an email today. While excited at the opportunity to act as the agent to secure the now dead King of Nigeria’s fortune, which I’m sure one of us render assistance, we also were notified that the Vox Nova blog is being suppressed. At this time we are pursuing Canonical remedies. It is our hope... Read more
It’s well known that Gandhi rejected Zionism, and that some of his greatest supporters in India were Muslims. New evidence suggests Gandhi’s contact with India’s Muslims had a major impact on his life. He was shot and killed by the Hindu extremist, Nathuram Godse, because Godse had discovered that Gandhi had abandoned Hinduism and had secretly become a Muslim. Read all about it here. Read more
I spent most of my Easter break in St. Louis where I devoted several days to researching in Saint Louis University’s incomparable Vatican Film Library, which houses the most Vatican Library manuscripts on microfilm in the world (next to, of course, the Vatican). Scholars from all over the world use SLU’s Vatican Film Library in order access some of the rarest and oldest Church sources. I, myself, was researching the medieval and early modern Church’s socio-economic teachings for my masters... Read more
No, the title of this post wasn’t an April Fools’ joke. Observing the fact that, “The special contribution of Mr. Hudson’s unusual memorandum is his insight that Catholics are not ‘single issue voters uncaring about children after they are born,’” Kmiec points out, “This is of course why Senator Obama’s call to address: the grievously wrongful killing taking place in the unjust, preemptive war in Iraq; the stewardship of the environment; the economic circumstances of the average family, including the provision... Read more
To follow previous brief thoughts on political order and civic virtue and community, the social knowledge embodied in the organic formation of civic community under the obligations of law must also be anchored in generational morality. (more…) Read more
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