Mark Shea Takes The Voxies to Task
Posted by: tony on 08/11/2008 04:28 PM
Updated by: tony on 08/11/2008 04:28 PM
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Expires: 09/11/2008 12:00 AM
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I have been reading Vox-Nova probably since its inception. I thought it was a really cool concept. A Catholic group blog from people of diverse political and ideological viewpoints. From their about page:
Vox Nova is a response to the ecclesial mandate to promote the common good in every sphere of human existence. We come from varying backgrounds and carry diverse social outlooks, traversing a wide range of demographics and political sympathies. Vox Nova is free, to the furthest extent possible, from partisanship, nationalism and demagoguery, all of which banish intellectual honesty from rational discourse.
Maybe they started out with the best of intentions, but I have to say currently, their about statement is unmitigated bull-pies. Their basic member with a couple of notable exceptions, are socialists, Democrats and other assorted throwbacks of the 60's. That, in itself, isn't a problem. The problem occurs when Vox-Nova seems to exist to make those who dissent from clear Catholic teaching feel good about voting for pro-death, anti-family Democrats. Mark Shea seems to concur:
Count me as someone else who is finding it harder and harder to credit the notion that Vox Nova is really trying to be faithfully consistent to magisterial teaching.
When posters consistently try and explain why you can, in good informed Catholic Conscience, vote for a man who advocates letting babies who, through the grace of almighty God, survive an abortion attempt, die alone in soiled utility rooms because his political opponent wants to win the war in Iraq instead of surrendering, you have to know that "Satan is in the building".
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