Humanistic Psychology Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/humanistic-psychology/ Vincent Ryan Ruggiero - Author of books and essays Sat, 10 Aug 2024 16:31:12 +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 Humanistic Psychology Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/humanistic-psychology/ 32 32 Tracing the Jesuits’ Decline https://mind-at-work.com/tracing-the-jesuits-decline/ Sat, 10 Aug 2024 16:31:12 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=5966 Shortly after publishing an essay lamenting the Jesuits' Magazine America's embrace of Wokeism, I read a prominent Jesuit's article lamenting the fact that the entire Jesuit order is in "profound decline." Many Catholic readers will no doubt find his article even more disturbing than mine. As it that were not enough, there are even wider [...]

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]]> Can the Church Help Restore America’s Values? https://mind-at-work.com/can-the-church-help-restore-americas-values/ Wed, 27 Dec 2023 20:15:10 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=5615 In a recent essay I explained that America's intellectual and moral decline can be reversed by restoring the ideas and practices foolishly discarded in recent decades—the belief that all humans are imperfect; that good and evil (sin and virtue) are real choices with real outcomes; that morality and truth are not created but discovered; and [...]

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]]> The Inflation of Infallibility https://mind-at-work.com/the-inflation-of-infallibility/ Thu, 18 Aug 2022 14:52:45 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=4996 -----------Carl Rogers---------- My recent essay on the doctrine of Papal Infallibility showed that many popes were mistaken about matters of faith and morals, proving that elevation to the papacy does not exempt one from human imperfection.This fact, I argued, raises questions about the claim of papal infallibility made in Vatican I in 1870. [...]

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]]> The Cost of Denying Conscience https://mind-at-work.com/the-cost-of-denying-conscience/ Wed, 06 Nov 2019 16:01:57 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=3618 For millennia the concept of conscience was prominent in virtually every religious and secular ethical system, though interpretations of its nature varied. Some defined it as an “inner voice,” but disagreed about what kind of voice—Desire? Discernment? Emotion? Reason? They disagreed, too, about whether the source of the voice is society, custom, God, or ourselves. [...]

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]]> The Challenge of Being a Priest https://mind-at-work.com/the-challenge-of-being-a-priest/ Sat, 14 Oct 2017 14:19:35 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=2388 Being a priest bestows the incomparable honor of changing bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ, as well as the opportunity to help others understand the wisdom of Scripture, solve their spiritual and psychological problems, and find meaning in their lives. The life of a priest, of course, has never been easy. [...]

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