Contraception Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/contraception/ Vincent Ryan Ruggiero - Author of books and essays Sat, 22 Jan 2022 14:26:10 +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 Contraception Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/contraception/ 32 32 The Catholic Church and Contraception, Part 1 https://mind-at-work.com/the-catholic-church-and-contraception-part-1/ Sat, 22 Jan 2022 14:26:10 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=4748 At a time when relativism has undermined the idea of objective truth, both philosophy and religion are challenged more than ever to defend the insights of reason and faith. Yet at the same time prudence continues to require examining, with courage and humility, any area in which the traditional view may have been mistaken. There [...]

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]]> What Informed Catholics Expect of Prelates https://mind-at-work.com/what-informed-catholics-expect-of-prelates/ Sun, 16 Jan 2022 14:10:05 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=4742 As I noted in “Overcoming Our Social Chaos”  and “A Layman’s Memo to Catholic Prelates”  the future of both Catholic Church and Western Civilization will largely depend on the prelates’ willingness to meet their leadership responsibilities. The editors of the Jesuit magazine America have expressed the related idea that prelates should “start listening to those [...]

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]]> 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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