On Sunday, Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez, the martyred Archbishop of San Salvador, will be canonized by Pope Francis in a ceremony in St. Peter Square. Earlier this year, Plough Publishing House (which, in my opinion, is by far the best Christian publisher on the planet right now), released a short collection of Bishop Oscar Romero’s writings and homilies under the title The Scandal of Redemption. For those interested in the life, witness, and martyrdom of Romero (and we all should be), the book is an invaluable companion. Read more
October 9, 2018
A Syllabus of System Failures Revisited
October 9, 2018 By Mark Gordon
I saw a 90-minute wait at a Hertz counter as a kind of warning wobble in the system, both for the company itself as well as the nation. If we can’t get rental cars right, I thought, we’re in trouble. Read more
October 4, 2018
Speaking to the Laity about the Crisis
October 4, 2018 By voxnovablog
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Vox Nova is pleased to welcome a guest post by long time reader Joseph Georges. It is now clear to many that the scandal of clerical sexual abuse is the most serious crisis the church has faced since the Reformation. (Massimo Faggioli in Commonweal, 8/8/18). “This summer has been anything but a church picnic for us. It’s been a disaster, one crisis after another. And as I try my best to listen to people, I hear them express very eloquently… Read more
September 17, 2018
A “New Voice” at Vox Nova
September 17, 2018 By Mark Gordon
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After 12 years, 5,500 posts, and 105,000 comments, the hope of the Vox Nova founders has been realized. It is a privilege to once again be bringing their vision to life. Read more
September 15, 2018
Welcome a new blogger
September 15, 2018 By David Cruz-Uribe
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Vox Nova is pleased to welcome a new blogger, Mark Gordon. In fact, we are pleased to welcome back an old blogger: Mark wrote for us in 2011-13 before moving on to work with some other blogs. You can find his earlier work in our archives. For those who do not know him, here is a short biography: Mark Gordon is a businessman, nonprofit leader, and writer. In addition to managing his own web development firm, he is president of… Read more
September 14, 2018
The Self-Protective Impulse Rears its Ugly Head Again
September 14, 2018 By Julia Smucker
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Nos autem gloriari oportet in cruce Domini nostri Jesu Christi, in quo est salus, vita, et resurrectio nostra, per quem salvati et liberati sumus. We should glory in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, in whom is our salvation, life and resurrection, through whom we are saved and delivered. –Entrance antiphon for the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross Pope Francis’ preferential option for the peripheries has been reflected, among other things, in his choice of cardinals,… Read more
September 3, 2018
Labor Justice in the Gig Economy
September 3, 2018 By Julia Smucker
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It’s Labor Day, and I would welcome work. At this time last year I was, by my own choice, in transition from a more conventional full-time job with a single employer to a more nebulous, semi-freelance one with multiple employers that define me variably as a casual employee, per diem employee, or contractor. It seems a strange choice to make for someone with a temperamental preference for structure and regularity, and I still wonder at that aspect of it. Truth… Read more
September 3, 2018
In honor of those who work
September 3, 2018 By Jeannine Pitas
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One of my favorite poems is African-American writer Robert Hayden’s frequently anthologized “Those Winter Sundays.” Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him. I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking. When the rooms were warm, he’d call, and slowly I would rise and dress, fearing the chronic angers of that… Read more
September 1, 2018
What Normal Sounds Like
September 1, 2018 By Julia Smucker
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Hearing the eulogies of Senator John McCain given by former presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, my foremost thought was, “Oh yeah, this is what normal leaders sound like.” Naturally, I took exception to the exceptionalism in their speeches. When they each mentioned the dignity of all human beings, without exceptions and beyond borders [!], I heard the asterisks as clearly as their words. And still I thought, “Oh yeah, this is what it feels like to take exception… Read more
August 24, 2018
To Treat the Cancer of Clerical Sex Abuse
August 24, 2018 By Julia Smucker
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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
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