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Happy 4th of July!

Yes, happy 4th of July! According to the calendar of the Church, July 4th’s real significance is that it is the feast day of St. Elizabeth of Portugal (1271-1336), a patron Saint of peacemakers.… more »

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the Fourth of July

nathancontramundi wrote 3 days ago: Happy Feast Day, St. Elizabeth of Portugal, St. Elizabeth the Peacemaker! Intercede for us, holy wom … more »

Tags: Roman Catholicism, Saints, feast day, SAINT ELIZABETH

Happy 4th of July! — 98 comments

Michael J. Iafrate wrote 3 days ago: Yes, happy 4th of July! According to the calendar of the Church, July 4th’s real significance … more »

Tags: The State, Pro-Life, Peace, Nationalism, Holidays, Ecclesiology, america

Electing not to vote? — 23 comments

Michael J. Iafrate wrote 6 days ago: Great post today, M.Z., which gives some perspective on the positions of various VN contributors in … more »

Tags: Abortion, america, anarchism, Culture of Death, election, Politics, The State, Violence, Voting

Cuba unveils new lung cancer vaccine — 20 comments

Michael J. Iafrate wrote 1 week ago: Here’s a story for those among us who uncritically accept as a truism that capitalist medicine … more »

Tags: capitalism, cuba, Health Care

Social welfare and anarchism — 7 comments

Michael J. Iafrate wrote 3 weeks ago: Countless discussions have taken place here at Vox Nova about health care, revisiting debates about … more »

Tags: Catholic social teaching, The State, Radical Catholicism, Health Care, capitalism, Liberalism, libertarianism, anarchism

Cheney, Appalachian humor, and American imperial logic — 21 comments

Michael J. Iafrate wrote 1 month ago: Dick “Don’t Let the Door Hit Ya” Cheney made headlines yesterday after he made a … more »

Tags: appalachia, Bush administration, america

Iraq's death toll may be 'above highest estimates' — 35 comments

Michael J. Iafrate wrote 1 month ago: From the Inter Press Service: The real number of the dead is far higher than even the highest declar … more »

Tags: War and Peace, Politics, Violence, Pro-Life, Culture of Death, Iraq War

Don't stay out of politics, Father — 54 comments

Michael J. Iafrate wrote 1 month ago: An accusation that we see thrown around a lot, especially around election time, is the charge that F … more »

Tags: america, Culture, democracy, Ecclesiology, El Salvador, Faith, Liberalism, News, obama

U.S. soliders trying to convert Iraqis to Christianity — 21 comments

Michael J. Iafrate wrote 1 month ago: From Democracy Now!: In Iraq, residents of Fallujah are claiming US soldiers are handing out Bible-t … more »

Tags: Politics, Postcolonialsim, Iraq War, middle east, america

Vox Nova at the Library: The Kings and Their Gods — 3 comments

Michael J. Iafrate wrote 1 month ago: Although still active in the Plowshares Movement and protests against the U.S.-led war in Iraq, leg … more »

Tags: america, Bush administration, Culture of Death, Iraq War, militarism, nonviolence, pacifism, Peace, Politics

Theology and the political imagination — 18 comments

Michael J. Iafrate wrote 1 month ago: [My aim is] to put theology into conversation with political theory in an attempt to expand our curr … more »

Tags: Ecclesiology, ethics, Politics, The State, Theology

memorial day — 15 comments

Michael J. Iafrate wrote 1 month ago: Our newer readers might be interested in a piece I wrote for memorial day last year, as well as a sh … more »

Tags: america, Catholic Worker Movement, Culture of Death, Dorothy Day, Ecclesiology, Holidays, MEMORIAL DAY, Nationalism, Patriotism

Rethinking the "givenness of the united states" — 42 comments

Michael J. Iafrate wrote 1 month ago: “[S]ocial justice activists as well as U.S.-based liberation theologians often criticize U.S. … more »

Tags: Politics, The State, Radical Catholicism, Liberation Theology, Postcolonialsim, Indigenous people, democracy, Theology, america

Taking Appalachia seriously: implications for theology and the Church — 31 comments

Michael J. Iafrate wrote 2 months ago: Appalachia was on the radar of participants of the Theology in the Americas conference in Detroit … more »

Tags: Catholic social teaching, The State, Liberation Theology, Postcolonialsim, Environmentalism, Globalization, Ecumenism, appalachia, Creation

Religious intolerance in the military — 11 comments

Michael J. Iafrate wrote 2 months ago: Robyn Blumner of the Salt Lake Tribune contributes a great piece on religious intolerance in the u.s … more »

Tags: Nationalism, Culture of Death, america, militarism, War

Vox Nova at the Library: Beyond Homelessness

Michael J. Iafrate wrote 2 months ago: A few weeks ago I turned in the final version of the index for Brian Walsh and Steven Bouma-Predige … more »

Tags: Books, Canada, Theology, Homelessness

Quote of the evening (and of the war on terror): Daniel Berrigan, SJ — 2 comments

Michael J. Iafrate wrote 2 months ago: “Does war alter our ‘grammar of assent’? In times of peace, do we see ourselves as … more »

Tags: america, Culture of Death, Iraq War, militarism, Nationalism, nonviolence, pacifism, Peace, Politics

Clinton: "If I’m the president, we will attack Iran" — 40 comments

Michael J. Iafrate wrote 2 months ago: From Agence France Presse: Democratic presidential Hillary Clinton has threatened to “obliterate … more »

Tags: Culture of Death, militarism, Politics, Violence

Appalachian lobbyists against mountaintop removal — 1 comment

Michael J. Iafrate wrote 2 months ago: NPR ran a pretty good segment on All Things Considered about lobbyists from Appalachia working to fi … more »

Tags: democracy, Environmentalism, appalachia


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