Pope Pius XI Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/pope-pius-xi/ Vincent Ryan Ruggiero - Author of books and essays Sat, 24 Oct 2020 11:00:31 +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 Pope Pius XI Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/pope-pius-xi/ 32 32 Pope Francis’ Curious Encyclical, Part 2 https://mind-at-work.com/pope-francis-curious-encyclical-part-2/ Sat, 24 Oct 2020 10:56:48 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=4136 Summary of Part 1: In Rerum Novarum (1891) Pope Leo XIII wrote: “The first and most fundamental principle . . . if one would undertake to alleviate the condition of the masses, must be the inviolability of private property.” [Paragraph 15. Emphasis added] The solution to poverty, he argued, was not to redistribute wealth but to increase ownership. In [...]

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]]> Pope Francis’ Curious Encyclical https://mind-at-work.com/pope-francis-curious-encyclical/ Sat, 10 Oct 2020 15:59:00 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=4114 Pope Francis’ latest encyclical, Fratelli Tutti (Brothers All) offers an odd combination of timely and profound insights, flawed judgment, and an error in historical fact. The factual error is serious because it encourages those who are working to replace Democracy with Socialism. This essay, the first of a series, will examine that error. Francis stated, “the [...]

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