Jesuits Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/jesuits/ Vincent Ryan Ruggiero - Author of books and essays Sat, 09 Jul 2022 15:07:37 +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 Jesuits Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/jesuits/ 32 32 Misrepresenting Catholic Teaching https://mind-at-work.com/misrepresenting-catholic-teaching/ Sat, 09 Jul 2022 14:23:56 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=4924 I recently expressed concern about the Catholic hierarchy’s troubling stance on homosexuality. Another statement by Pope Francis unfortunately increases rather than diminishes that concern. The statement was written in support of Jesuit father James Martin’s LGBT parish ministry, an effort designed “to help LGBT Catholics know that God loves them, that they are at the [...]

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]]> When Prayer Becomes Propaganda https://mind-at-work.com/when-prayer-becomes-propaganda/ Tue, 10 Oct 2017 14:54:50 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=2379 At first glance, the prayer that Father James Martin, S.J. recently published in America, the magazine he edits, seems a heartfelt petition. On closer reading, however, it is more a political statement framed as a prayer. To be sure, it contains elements that qualify as prayer, notably a plea for God to care for the souls [...]

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