Abortion Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/abortion/ Vincent Ryan Ruggiero - Author of books and essays Sat, 16 Nov 2019 20:14:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://mind-at-work.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-open-book-32x32.png Abortion Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/abortion/ 32 32 Denying Communion to Joe Biden, Part 2 https://mind-at-work.com/denying-communion-to-joe-biden-part-2/ Sat, 16 Nov 2019 18:06:59 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=3639 Richard Cardinal Cushing Part 1 of this essay argued that the denial of communion to Joe Biden was appropriate and objections to that denial were based on two false ideas—that the Catholic view of abortion is unreasonable, and that when elected officials support the Catholic view they are “imposing” it on others. The [...]

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]]> The Florida Bishops on Abortion and Contraception https://mind-at-work.com/the-florida-bishops-on-abortion-and-contraception/ Sat, 16 Feb 2019 14:11:46 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=3157 On the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, January 22, 2019, the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops published a pastoral letter that was signed by every bishop and included in parish bulletins across the state. It began by citing this powerful passage from Pope Francis’ Amoris Laetitia. . . . If the family is the sanctuary [...]

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]]> Remembering that Words Matter https://mind-at-work.com/remembering-that-words-matter/ Wed, 19 Jul 2017 20:04:18 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=2267 In times past, there was universal agreement among thinking people that words matter and therefore should be used honestly and with precision. However, from time to time many people have forgotten or ignored this precept, so reminders have been needed. G. K. Chesterton provided one in Orthodoxy (1908) when he wrote, “Most of the machinery [...]

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]]> The Catholic Vote in 2016 https://mind-at-work.com/the-catholic-vote-in-2016/ Tue, 25 Oct 2016 20:54:43 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=1897 According to most reports, a majority of Catholics intend to vote for Hillary Clinton this year. The reason, at least in part, is that Democrats have always claimed to champion working class voters, and Catholics still believe them. In the days when Democratic ideals and programs were compatible with Catholicism, such unquestioning allegiance posed no great [...]

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]]> O’Reilly’s “Potential Human Being” https://mind-at-work.com/oreillys-potential-human-being/ Wed, 03 Jun 2015 17:33:42 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=1437 When Bill O’Reilly used the term “potential human being” to describe a human fetus in 2011, Catholic Online (among other journals) quickly corrected him. However, he evidently didn’t get the message, because he continued to use the term. Four years later, on May 28, 2015, he showed a letter from a viewer objecting to the term [...]

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