Church Fathers Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/church-fathers/ Vincent Ryan Ruggiero - Author of books and essays Sun, 15 Dec 2019 19:25:09 +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 Church Fathers Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/church-fathers/ 32 32 The Catholic Church and Women https://mind-at-work.com/the-catholic-church-and-women/ Sun, 15 Dec 2019 19:09:46 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=3698 For Catholics, as well as Jews and other Christians, the story of man’s relationship with woman begins in the Book of Genesis with God making Adam from the dust and Eve from Adam’s rib, and the two subsequently eating the forbidden fruit—Eve after succumbing to the serpent’s tempting, and Adam following her example. In time, [...]

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]]> The Catholic Church and Salvation https://mind-at-work.com/the-catholic-church-and-salvation/ Wed, 11 Jul 2018 18:10:09 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=2765 Some years ago a close friend told me of an experience she had in the early 1950s. A recent convert to Catholicism at the time, she was talking to a priest about the death of her grandfather, a Congregationalist minister whom she described as the most saintly person she had ever known, adding that she [...]

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