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Catholicism’s Unfortunate Embrace of Social Justice

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 13:41:20 +0000

Although the term "justice" has been in use for thousands of years, "social justice" was coined in the late 1800s and became prominent in the 20th century. Catholic bishops, including Pope John XXIII, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Francis, and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops have embraced it as a means of helping the poor. [...]

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UFOs and Catholic Faith

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Sat, 22 May 2021 14:46:55 +0000

Dali's "Christ of St. John of the Cross" We’ve heard about UFOs for more than half a century but they were always depicted as being explainable things like weather balloons or products of people’s overactive imaginations. But now there is evidence that they were and are very real phenomena for which there is [...]

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What Catholics Can Learn from Buddhists

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Sat, 27 Apr 2019 16:51:37 +0000

For centuries Catholics were discouraged, and even forbidden, from reading non-Catholic works lest their faith be undermined. Such precautions were reasonable when the laity were largely uneducated and even illiterate. Though that is no longer the case, it remains prudent to exercise care in what we read and view. Yet even so, learning about other [...]

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When Prayer Becomes Propaganda

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 14:54:50 +0000

At first glance, the prayer that Father James Martin, S.J. recently published in America, the magazine he edits, seems a heartfelt petition. On closer reading, however, it is more a political statement framed as a prayer. To be sure, it contains elements that qualify as prayer, notably a plea for God to care for the souls [...]

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The Denigration of Women in History

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Thu, 13 Nov 2014 21:43:32 +0000

Westerners are shocked by the treatment of women under Sharia Law, and they rightly link that treatment to the negative view of women historically present in Islam. Yet many are unaware that almost all other religions and cultures have held a similar view. Ancient cultures were generally patriarchal and misogynistic. There were some exceptions—in certain periods [...]

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