essays by Vincent Ryan Ruggiero
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01, 2020
The Catholic View of Faith and Reason
For centuries many people have considered faith and reason mutually exclusive rather than complementary. This notion has led many non-religious [...]
11
01, 2020
The Communion of Saints
The phrase “the Communion of Saints” is very familiar to Catholics, especially older ones, because it is in the Apostles’ [...]
4
01, 2020
On Remaining Catholic
A few mornings ago, while enjoying my morning swim, I noticed a small bird sitting atop a tall palm tree. [...]
15
12, 2019
The Catholic Church and Women
For Catholics, as well as Jews and other Christians, the story of man’s relationship with woman begins in the Book [...]
6
12, 2019
The Greatest Human Fault
What is the greatest human fault? I believe it is self-deception, which causes or enables virtually all other faults. In addition [...]
30
11, 2019
The Path of the Wandering Calf
Many years ago, when I was a college professor, I came across a poem by Sam Walter Foss (1858-1911) that [...]
23
11, 2019
Denying Communion to Joe Biden, Part 3
The Cushing principle discussed in Part 1 and Part 2 of this essay—that expressing one’s beliefs in the public square [...]
16
11, 2019
Denying Communion to Joe Biden, Part 2
Richard Cardinal Cushing Part 1 of this essay argued that the denial of communion to Joe Biden was [...]
9
11, 2019
Denying Communion to Joe Biden
In the midst of his campaign for the Democrat presidential nomination, former Vice-President Joe Biden was denied Holy Communion by [...]
26
10, 2019
Does Prayer Really Matter?
The subject of the homily in a Church near my own parish was prayer. The homilist declared that praying for [...]