The awful extent of the Catholic Church’s abuse crisis hit home to me once a few years ago, when I found out that it affected a particular community I dearly love. I remember remarking to someone at that time, “It’s like the whole Church has a cancer, and it’s everywhere.” Now further revelations of how widespread and ugly this horrible cancer is have left the Body reeling. Like many of my fellow Catholics, I have felt sorrow, moral repugnancy, and… Read more
August 24, 2018
To Treat the Cancer of Clerical Sex Abuse
August 24, 2018 By Julia Smucker
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August 23, 2018
This is our Romero Moment: Nicaraguan Catholic Church responds to political unrest
August 23, 2018 By voxnovablog
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The following post was originally published by Rhonda Miska in Global Sisters Report. This article comes from written reports and interviews with men and women religious on the ground in Nicaragua. For their safety, their names have been changed and their religious communities and ministries are not identified. Last year, another former Jesuit Volunteer and I planned a return trip to Nicaragua. We dreamed of visiting former colleagues, seeing schoolchildren now all grown up, eating gallo pinto and quesillo, and watching the sunset… Read more
August 20, 2018
Resolved: Holding Great Wealth is Immoral
August 20, 2018 By David Cruz-Uribe
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Resolved: it is immoral to hold onto great wealth, and a Christian is obligated to give away wealth in excess of a prudential amount required for comfort and safety. From time to time here at Vox Nova, we have quoted various Fathers of the Church on the sinfulness of holding wealth. But recently I found an article by a secular progressive who makes much the same argument in what I think is a very compelling fashion. He does so from… Read more
August 18, 2018
A Meditation on Messiness
August 18, 2018 By Jeannine Pitas
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For as long as I can remember, I’ve been a messy person. I distinctly remember being a second grader – my desk, in which we students stored our textbooks and folders, was comparatively more disorderly than that of all my fellow classmates. The same was true in sixth grade, when we graduated to lockers. In high school I lazily used one notebook for several subjects. In college and afterwards I often struggled to negotiate living standards with roommates who believed… Read more
August 13, 2018
A Series of Conversations About Life Issues
August 13, 2018 By Julia Smucker
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This week I’ve been back home recuperating from a particularly overwhelming conference season packed into the past couple of months: two events at which I tabled for Consistent Life, two I attended out of my own personal interests, and a regional weekend workshop that happened to be on my way back home. All of these events drew very different crowds, and within each one I had the paradoxical feeling of being both at home and somewhat out of place, in… Read more
July 27, 2018
Four Episodes from a Consistent Life Ethic, Part II
July 27, 2018 By David Cruz-Uribe
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In this post I want to continue my episodic narrative of how I came to my views on a consistent life ethic. You can read part I here. Also, I want to apologize in advance if you are writing comments and are not seeing them or I do not respond quickly. I am on the road and do not have regular access to a computer, and I do not have my list of passwords with me. War, peace and non-violence… Read more
July 24, 2018
Four Episodes from a Consistent Life Ethic, Part I
July 24, 2018 By David Cruz-Uribe
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I have been a member of the Consistent Life Network for more than 25 years. I joined in graduate school, back when it was still called the Seamless Garment Network. Cardinal Bernadin popularized the idea of a “seamless garment” ethic, (according to Wikipedia, Eileen Egan coined the term in the 70s); his goal was to get the Catholic pro-life community in the US to understand “pro-life” in the fuller context of Catholic Social Teaching. The organization itself is not Catholic,… Read more
July 9, 2018
A Question on the Lectionary and the NAB
July 9, 2018 By David Cruz-Uribe
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I want to ramble a bit on the Lectionary and then pose a question I hope our readers can answer. I have not done this in a while (for the last times I can recall, see here and here), but I have started serving as a lector again, and this leads me to read the text much more closely than usual. I was a lector this past Sunday (July 8), and I was assigned the second reading: 2 Cor 12:7-10. … Read more
June 30, 2018
Mark Gordon, the Immigration Crisis, and Making People Uncomfortable
June 30, 2018 By David Cruz-Uribe
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Over at the Dorothy Option, our former blogger Mark Gordon has a powerful post that he has given us permission to share. I am going to clip out two parts, but I recommend you go and read the whole thing here. He starts with an excellent summary of the facts about immigration: Okay, let’s be clear about one thing: There is no immigration crisis on the southern border of the United States. Illegal border crossings have been steadily declining since they… Read more
June 27, 2018
Immigration: A Homily for the Feast of the Nativity of John the Baptist
June 27, 2018 By voxnovablog
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Vox Nova is pleased to present a guest post by Fr. Michael Najim, Pastor of St. Pius X parish in Westerly, Rhode Island. This is the text of the homily he gave at mass on Sunday, June 24, the Feast of the Nativity of John the Baptist. The role of the Biblical prophets was not simply to predict what God would do in the future; the role of the Biblical prophets was also to disturb people by calling out sin… Read more
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