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A Special Way of Praying for America

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Sat, 19 Jun 2021 15:30:47 +0000

It is hard to imagine a greater need for prayer in our country than the need that exists today. In the past we have faced illness, famine, and attacks from without, but today we face graver assaults from within. At stake are the institutions and processes that have given the U.S. unprecedented economic and social [...]

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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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Renewing Catholic Respect for Reason

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Sun, 09 Feb 2020 15:52:50 +0000

Rodin's The Thinker I recently noted that though the Catholic Church was once Reason’s greatest champion, in recent centuries the hierarchy have grown wary of it, and this has affected Catholic teaching. I documented this with reference to the present Catechism and twenty-one papal encyclicals from Pope Leo XIII to Pope Francis.Though the Catechism is consistent [...]

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Does Prayer Really Matter?

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Sat, 26 Oct 2019 19:19:10 +0000

The subject of the homily in a Church near my own parish was prayer. The homilist declared that praying for Aunt Louise’s cancer to be cured or for one’s prodigal son to mend his ways is pointless and therefore immature. The only meaningful form of prayer, he explained, is “Thy will be done” because God 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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