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American Catholics and Social Justice, Revisited

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 16:26:29 +0000

“Social justice” is at the center of most political activism in contemporary America. It has provided arguments for the expansion of entitlement programs, for making the affluent “pay their fair share,” and more generally for “redistributing wealth.” It has also become the rallying cry for demonstrations and encampments such as Occupy Wall Street. Liberals tend to [...]

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The Meaning of Charity Has Changed

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Sat, 25 Sep 2021 15:45:05 +0000

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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On Trees, Butterflies, and Powerful People

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Sat, 07 Aug 2021 16:39:20 +0000

“If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear, does it make a sound?” This old question challenged the minds of people who gathered in living rooms before Netflix and Amazon Prime existed. It is still fun to ponder. Sound is a vibration that moves the surrounding air. Hearing is [...]

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Why Aren’t America’s Problems Being Solved?

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Sat, 10 Aug 2019 14:21:39 +0000

The United States has had a border problem for decades and both political parties have blamed each other, promised to solve it if elected, failed to do anything about it when elected, and then blamed the other side for their failure. The same is true of problems with the health care system, the imbalance of [...]

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Ideas That Are Destroying America

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Sat, 25 May 2019 17:27:09 +0000

Many writers have lamented America’s moral and intellectual decline but few have identified the cause. I submit that it is the cluster of ideas known as Relativism. First popularized by J. J. Rousseau in the eighteenth century as Romanticism, these ideas were expressed in the mid-twentieth century in the Humanistic Psychology of Carl Rogers and [...]

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