articles by Vincent Ryan Ruggiero about religion
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01, 2024
Sermons to Reverse America’s Decline, Part 2
The decline of America has been underway for decades and has dramatically increased in recent years. Signs of it are [...]
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01, 2024
Sermons to Reverse America’s Decline
I recently wrote that for many decades politicians have used "Separation of Church and State" to intimidate the clergy to [...]
27
12, 2023
Can the Church Help Restore America’s Values?
In a recent essay I explained that America's intellectual and moral decline can be reversed by restoring the ideas and [...]
25
11, 2023
Why Defrocking Is Not the Answer
I have written before concerning Pope Francis' contempt for conservative Catholics. One such example of that contempt was his statement [...]
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11, 2023
The Catholic Hierarchy and the Mideast Conflict
"The good shepherd lays down his life for his sheep. The hired hand, who is not the shepherd and does [...]
7
10, 2023
Will the Hierarchy Embrace This Wise Counsel?
The four-year Synod of the Catholic Church is nearing completion. It has been described as a "Journey" that is "both [...]
30
09, 2023
Pope Francis’ View of Conservative Catholics
In a conversation with Jesuit priests and students in Portugal on August 28, 2023, Pope Francis answered a number of [...]
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06, 2023
A Bishop Discusses Open Borders
Sacramento Bishop Jaime Soto recently published an essay titled "Migrants Are Not Fodder for Political Propaganda" in the Jesuit magazine [...]
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06, 2023
Restoring Catholic Wisdom, Part 3
Part 1 of this essay argued that the Catholic Church desperately needs to renew its historic teachings, and the Bishops [...]
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04, 2023
Restoring Catholic Wisdom
It remains a common assumption that individuals who went to Catholic Colleges are much more informed about their faith than [...]