Randy Coleman-Riese

04Jul

Ties That Bind vs individualism?

July 4, 2016 Randy Coleman-Riese

Some thoughts on the 240th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America. The ideas underlying the democratic...

01Jul

July 1, 2016 Randy Coleman-Riese

Ralph Stanley Bill Cunningham Among the many who ended their earthly pilgrimages in the past week are the two men...

06Jun

June 6, 2016 Randy Coleman-Riese

The modern world as a whole is a world that thinks only about its own old age. It is a...

05Jun

June 5, 2016 Randy Coleman-Riese

“Americans interested in neither nationalism nor socialism,” writes Jonah Goldberg, “are once more entering an era of political homelessness.” All...

26May

May 26, 2016 Randy Coleman-Riese

Beatrice instructs Dante on the Gospel and how it has been preached to the world: They do not count...

19Mar

March 19, 2016 Randy Coleman-Riese

Squaring the Circle – G K Chesterton on Circles and Crosses: As we have taken the circle as the...

17Mar

March 17, 2016 Randy Coleman-Riese

On this most Irish of feast days I reprise a link from one of the last posts on our old...

23Dec

December 23, 2015 Randy Coleman-Riese

Christmas is the traditional gift giving season. For many the gifts given and received at Christmas are heartfelt expressions of...

15Nov

November 15, 2015 Randy Coleman-Riese

At the funeral of René Girard the Requiem Mass was a sung Gregorian Mass. The celebrant and homilist was Fr....

11Nov

November 11, 2015 Randy Coleman-Riese

…formerly known as Armistice Day which commemorated the end of World War I, the ‘war to end all wars’. In...