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Stimulating Catholic Intellects, Part III

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Thu, 09 Jun 2016 14:55:15 +0000

Summary of Parts I and II: With Christianity under attack from secularism, selfism, socialism, and Islamism, Catholics need to be engaged in its defense. Their arguments should focus on reason more than faith because that is the focus their opponents understand. Yet Catholics have been conditioned to distrust their own reasoning. They therefore need to overcome [...]

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Stimulating Catholic Intellects, Part II

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 13:35:56 +0000

Christians should be leading the defense of western civilization against the threats of secularism, selfism, socialism, and Islamism. Lamentably, they are not showing that leadership, mainly because of the arguments they use. Protestants generally use biblical arguments; Catholics, biblical and doctrinal arguments. Such arguments, based on Revelation, are perfectly valid. Yet they are unimpressive to [...]

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Stimulating Catholic Intellects

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Wed, 25 May 2016 14:18:52 +0000

Ambrose Bierce, a master of insightful wit, once defined the term Scriptures as “the sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.” The sly implication that no religion has greater insight into the divine than all other religions is, of course, [...]

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