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Sermons to Reverse America’s Decline, Part 2

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 12:56:36 +0000

The decline of America has been underway for decades and has dramatically increased in recent years. Signs of it are now evident throughout our society. Part 1 of this essay explained how Churches can help solve the problem by directly addressing moral issues from their pulpits. At present, virtually no Catholic churches do so; nor [...]

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Sermons to Reverse America’s Decline

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 14:49:23 +0000

I recently wrote that for many decades politicians have used "Separation of Church and State" to intimidate the clergy to be silent about "political issues," and that most churches responded accordingly. One result I noted has been to deprive churchgoers of moral and intellectual guidance and make them more vulnerable to secularism. I urged the [...]

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When “Eyes Do Not See, Nor Ears Hear”

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 15:20:25 +0000

Cardinal Dolan began a June 2023 essay by lamenting that "religious freedom—our first and most cherished liberty—has wrongly come to be seen by many in the United States as a partisan cause." What dangerous people hold this disgraceful view? He doesn't identify them, but it's a good guess he wasn't thinking Democrats. What "religious freedom" [...]

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Catholic Bishops and Leadership

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 14:31:12 +0000

A recent study revealed that half the diocesan priests in the U.S. are experiencing significant burnout. The researchers found that the “major factor” for this is the low “level of trust between a priest and his bishop.“ When asked whom they turn to for “social support,” most priests cited “lay friends, family and parishioners” rather [...]

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The Whatever School of Morality

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Sat, 10 Sep 2022 14:55:11 +0000

One of the most fundamental and ancient moral precepts is Do Good and Avoid Evil. It was expressed (in different words) in the Hippocratic Oath between the fifth and third centuries before Christ. More than a millennium later, St. Thomas Aquinas and others considered it a key ethical precept, as have most philosophers since then. [...]

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