The Vatican Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/the-vatican/ Vincent Ryan Ruggiero - Author of books and essays Fri, 02 Feb 2024 15:54:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 https://mind-at-work.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-open-book-32x32.png The Vatican Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/the-vatican/ 32 32 Whatever Happened to Sin? https://mind-at-work.com/whatever-happened-to-sin/ Fri, 31 Mar 2023 20:00:32 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=5250 Original Sin as depicted by Brueghel and Rubens Whatever happened to sin? For the answer to this perplexing question, simply replace the question mark with a period. What happened to sin is that the "whatever" perspective on right and wrong has rendered sin archaic. When whatever feels right is believed to be right, [...]

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]]> Pope Francis Pastoring Protestors https://mind-at-work.com/pope-francis-pastoring-protestors/ Sat, 30 Oct 2021 15:23:17 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=4641 The fourth meeting of “Popular Movements “was held in October, 2021 and sponsored by “People Improving Communities through Organizing” (PICO), the Vatican, and the “Catholic Campaign for Human Development,” an organ of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). Two of the three represent the Catholic hierarchy, and the third was created by a Catholic [...]

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]]> The Validity of Baptism https://mind-at-work.com/the-validity-of-baptism/ Sat, 05 Sep 2020 14:54:58 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=4058 Was your baptism valid? The question is not an idle one, as Father Matthew Hood, a young priest in the Archdiocese of Detroit, will attest. After reading a statement on baptism from the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (VCDF), Father Hood looked into his own baptism performed thirty years earlier, and discovered [...]

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]]> Abusers, Enablers, and Jesus https://mind-at-work.com/abusers-enablers-and-jesus/ Wed, 22 Aug 2018 17:18:09 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=2845 The story of Catholic priests and sex abuse is back in the news and it is no less painful for Catholics this time than it was the last. Some may be thinking, “There’s no point in visiting the same moral swamp again. There’s been too much revelation, too much scandal already. Better to be spared [...]

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