Charity Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/charity/ Vincent Ryan Ruggiero - Author of books and essays Sat, 02 Oct 2021 15:12:17 +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 Charity Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/charity/ 32 32 The Meaning of Charity Has Changed, Part 2 https://mind-at-work.com/the-meaning-of-charity-has-changed-part-2/ Sat, 02 Oct 2021 15:12:17 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=4599 The Good Samaritan Part 1 explained how the meaning of Charity has changed, and ended with these questions: Why did the hierarchy embrace the non-biblical view that the poor have a right to charity? Did they not realize that it paved the way to the Socialism denounced by a number of Popes? And [...]

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]]> The Meaning of Charity Has Changed https://mind-at-work.com/the-meaning-of-charity-has-changed/ Sat, 25 Sep 2021 15:45:05 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=4588 Charitable giving  is not always virtuous. If I give my own money or goods to someone in need out of love of neighbor, in the great majority of cases I am acting virtuously. However, if I give what I hold in trust for someone without that person's permission, I am violating that trust. And if [...]

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]]> Ted Cruz’s Missed Opportunity https://mind-at-work.com/ted-cruzs-missed-opportunity/ Wed, 27 Jul 2016 14:27:41 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=1768 Senator Ted Cruz is a born-again Christian and the son of an Evangelical pastor who exhorts his congregation to “tithe mightily” and to be “biblically correct.” The senator has ignored the first exhortation and missed a singular opportunity to demonstrate the second. According to his tax records, Ted Cruz ‘s tithe is not the biblical [...]

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]]> Pope Francis on Poverty https://mind-at-work.com/pope-francis-poverty/ Thu, 12 Dec 2013 03:12:32 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=702 When Sarah Palin said the Pope’s views on poverty were “kind of liberal” and Rush Limbaugh called them “pure Marxism,” the media were aghast. In a rare moment of unity, scoffers joined now-and-then Catholics, former Catholics, and practicing Catholics in protest. Palin and Limbaugh quickly, and prudently, said they had meant no disrespect. Ironically, their [...]

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