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2022-12-09T21:02:59-05:00

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Lies, Damn Lies, and Profit Motives

Last updated on: December 9, 2022 at 9:02 pm By Julia Smucker

A few years ago, my creeping moral unease with major pharmacy chains was galvanized by reading about “pharmacy deserts“, which occur when chains squeeze out and then buy out independent pharmacies only to shut them down, forcing customers to travel burdensome distances to pick up prescriptions – with potentially disastrous effect if people can’t get there by closing time. I was reminded of this on learning of a similar situation happening with a pain management facility, essential to many patients,... Read more

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2022-11-28T22:52:17-05:00

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On Judging Idiots and Being the Idiot

Last updated on: November 28, 2022 at 10:52 pm By Julia Smucker

Fredrik Backman nails the human condition. I have this recurring thought every time I pick up one of the Swedish author’s novels: A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry, Britt-Marie Was Here, and currently Anxious People, where Backman writes in the opening pages: So it needs saying from the outset that it’s always very easy to declare that other people are idiots, but only if you forget how idiotically difficult being human is. Especially if you have other... Read more

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2022-10-02T13:32:09-05:00

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Another Reflection

Last updated on: October 2, 2022 at 1:32 pm By David Cruz-Uribe

Last week I posted the text of a reflection which I gave in my fraternity for the rite of admission for one of our candidates. I found it as I was preparing another such reflection, for a candidate we just admitted, whom I shall refer to as Art. Here is the text. My dear brothers and sisters, may the Lord be with you, and you with the Lord! We gather today to welcome our brother Art in his rite of... Read more

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2022-09-24T20:39:16-05:00

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A Reflection for a Rite of Admission

Last updated on: September 24, 2022 at 8:39 pm By David Cruz-Uribe

I was looking for some papers and I found this reflection which I gave last year and always meant to post. For background: as part of the process of becoming a Secular Franciscan, a person passes through several stages–visitor, inquirer, candidate–before becoming a professed member. The ceremony to become a candidate, called the rite of admission, is marked by a short liturgy of the word. Last year, one of our members, whom I will refer to as Kay (not her... Read more

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2022-08-15T15:32:36-05:00

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Can one be a homeowner and a Christian?*

Last updated on: August 15, 2022 at 3:32 pm By Jeannine Pitas

*This is a sincere question, not a rhetorical one…though some rhetoric follows. I’m writing these words in a room with big windows. I’m looking through them at a blue sky on a bright late-summer afternoon, listening to the sound of locusts, and sipping tea. So far it’s been a good day. Throughout my life I’ve sat and written in many rooms. Not counting my years in a college dorm, I’ve lived in nine different dwellings as an adult.... Read more

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2022-07-16T10:09:29-05:00

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An interesting take on modesty

Last updated on: July 16, 2022 at 10:09 am By David Cruz-Uribe

Some years ago, we at Vox Nova had a variety of posts on modesty as a Christian virtue, and also on the abuses of this virtue in support of patriarchal or even misogynist values. You can read a couple of my contributions here and here. Though I have not written about it in a while, I still pay attention to it (on Facebook and elsewhere) because I find it intrinsically interesting and as a way to monitor the Zeitgeist: “modesty”... Read more

2022-07-06T20:22:10-05:00

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Pastoral Letter on Nuclear Disarmament: A Catholic Worker Campaign

Last updated on: July 6, 2022 at 8:22 pm By David Cruz-Uribe

Archbishop John C. Wester of Santa Fe, New Mexico, has written a pastoral letter on nuclear weapons and nuclear disarmament, Living in the Light of Christ’s Peace: A Conversation Toward Nuclear Disarmament . Spurred by his visit to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and aware that his archdiocese contains two of the largest nuclear weapons labs in the world (Los Alamos and Sandia National Labs), Archbishop Wester has written a powerful summary of Catholic teaching and issued a clear call to all... Read more

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2022-07-02T15:25:08-05:00

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Reblogging: Must We Resign Ourselves to Violence

Last updated on: July 2, 2022 at 3:25 pm By David Cruz-Uribe

Vox Nova blogger Julia Smucker is a regular contributor to the blog of the Consistent Life Network, a pro-life, pro-peace organization dedicated to non-violence. Here is a sample of her most recent post: Once while taking a graduate-level test in cultural anthropology, I had a revelation of sorts. In the class, we’d been discussing what’s revealed when different cultural values come into tension. The test essay question went something like, “What would the repeal of motorcycle helmet laws say about... Read more

2022-07-02T15:15:55-05:00

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This is Why We Founded Vox Nova–And Why it Must Continue

Last updated on: July 2, 2022 at 3:15 pm By David Cruz-Uribe

There has not been a lot of traffic on our blog, Vox Nova, in the past couple of years. For a while I had a weekly series on Catholic Social Teaching in papal encyclicals, driven by a pandemic based reading group, that was more for my own benefit than anything. Writers moved on, people developed other interests, and somehow Vox Nova got moved to the back burner. So much so that Patheos recently wrote to ask if we wanted the... Read more

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2022-07-01T11:43:41-05:00

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It’s More Complicated Than That

Last updated on: July 1, 2022 at 11:43 am By Jeannine Pitas

I have a friend with whom I agree on most political issues. A moderate Democrat, he supports things like social welfare programs that promote equality and comprehensive immigration reform. One area where we firmly clash, however, is in our attitudes toward war. A historian of the ancient world, he believes that war has always been with us and always will be. I, meanwhile, am mostly persuaded by cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker’s arguments that, on the scale of all human history,... Read more

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