essays by Vincent Ryan Ruggiero
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04, 2022
The Unfathomable Silence of the Shepherds
The Shepherd metaphor is one of the clearest and most vivid in all of Scripture and not surprisingly was adopted [...]
8
04, 2022
A New Catholic View on Homosexuality?
In the past, Munich's Cardinal Reinhard Marx has given his blessing to same-sex couples. Now he is going a step [...]
26
03, 2022
The Lost Art of Listening
Listening to others is fast becoming a lost art. The most common sign of this is refusal to listen to [...]
11
03, 2022
Men’s Shameful Attitudes Toward Women
The history of men’s attitudes toward women has been, in a word, shameful. In the beginning, at the dawn of [...]
4
03, 2022
The Ukrainians’ Timeless Example
President Zelensky The start of 2022 has been strange indeed, not only for Europe, but for the entire [...]
19
02, 2022
In Praise of Virtue
Virtue may be defined simply as doing the right thing and heroic virtue as doing the right thing at great [...]
12
02, 2022
The Catholic Church and Contraception, Part 4
Part 1 explained that Catholic teaching on contraception, and its larger teaching on marriage, were based on St. Augustine of Hippo’s [...]
5
02, 2022
The Catholic Church and Contraception, Part 3
St. Augustine of Hippo Part 1 explained that Catholic teaching on contraception, and indeed its larger teaching on marriage, [...]
29
01, 2022
The Catholic Church and Contraception, Part 2
Part 1 explained that Catholic teaching on contraception is part of the Church’s larger teaching on marriage. Both reflect the [...]
22
01, 2022
The Catholic Church and Contraception, Part 1
At a time when relativism has undermined the idea of objective truth, both philosophy and religion are challenged more than [...]