essays by Vincent Ryan Ruggiero
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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 [...]
16
01, 2022
What Informed Catholics Expect of Prelates
As I noted in “Overcoming Our Social Chaos” and “A Layman’s Memo to Catholic Prelates” the future of both Catholic [...]
8
01, 2022
A Layman’s Memo to Catholic Prelates
It seems that the more social problems have multiplied in America in recent years, the less helpful the leadership of [...]