The Papacy Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/the-papacy/ Vincent Ryan Ruggiero - Author of books and essays Wed, 18 Jul 2018 09:43:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://mind-at-work.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-open-book-32x32.png The Papacy Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/the-papacy/ 32 32 The Catholic Church and Salvation, Part 2 https://mind-at-work.com/the-catholic-church-and-salvation-part-2/ Wed, 18 Jul 2018 09:43:01 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=2777 Part 1 documented that “Outside the Church there is no salvation” has been a consistent Catholic teaching for many centuries. The essay quoted thirteen popes from Innocent III to John Paul II, named five prominent scholar-saints who supported the teaching, and noted that some contemporary Catholic writers consider it both definitive and infallible. In closing, [...]

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]]> The Catholic Church and Salvation https://mind-at-work.com/the-catholic-church-and-salvation/ Wed, 11 Jul 2018 18:10:09 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=2765 Some years ago a close friend told me of an experience she had in the early 1950s. A recent convert to Catholicism at the time, she was talking to a priest about the death of her grandfather, a Congregationalist minister whom she described as the most saintly person she had ever known, adding that she [...]

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