articles by Vincent Ryan Ruggiero about religion
The Nearsighted Shepherd, Part 3
A Guide to Improving Shepherding Part 1 showed how the Bishops’ championing of Muslim migration and support of the foes of American democracy [...]
articles by Vincent Ryan Ruggiero about religion
A Guide to Improving Shepherding Part 1 showed how the Bishops’ championing of Muslim migration and support of the foes of American democracy [...]
Part I of this essay introduced the fable of the Nearsighted Shepherd and likened his situation to that of the [...]
A Cautionary Fable Once upon a time, there was a nearsighted shepherd who mistook another flock for his own and [...]
The sheep and shepherds metaphor is a central one in Christianity. It is found in both the Old Testament and [...]
Pope Benedict’s recent essay on the Church’s sex-abuse scandal begins by clarifying the cultural context in which the sex-abuse scandal [...]
I recently wrote an essay entitled “What Catholics Can Learn From Buddhists.” A reader responded by stating that Jesus is [...]
For centuries Catholics were discouraged, and even forbidden, from reading non-Catholic works lest their faith be undermined. Such precautions were [...]
Recently, while dusting my bookcase, I noticed my copy of Malachi Martin’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Church, published [...]
Even before Catholics could fully grasp the enormity of the sex abuse scandals in their church, new revelations came in [...]
On the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, January 22, 2019, the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops published a pastoral letter [...]