19Feb From Anthropology to Social Theory February 19, 2019 Gil Bailie Blog In the introduction to their “From Anthropology to Social Theory,” Arpad Szakolczai and Bjørn Thomassen remark on the entries found...Read more
19Jan Keep the Faith January 19, 2019 Gil Bailie Blog Here is something Joseph Ratzinger told an interviewer in 1996, before he became pope: “ . . . the church...Read more
10Jan Looking ahead . . . January 10, 2019 Gil Bailie Blog In the preface to his translation of Thomas à Kempis’ The Imitation of Christ, William C. Creasy sketched the historical...Read more
04Jan The Catholic meaning of the church January 4, 2019 Gil Bailie Blog Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger – Benedict XVI In an interview in 1985, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger – the future Pope Benedict XVI...Read more
29Oct The Public Atmospherics of Health October 29, 2018 Gil Bailie Blog Here is a very timely message from the pen of Hans Urs von Balthasar, written decades before the current crisis...Read more
09Oct Spiritual Adventure October 9, 2018 Gil Bailie Blog George Bernanos I am no George Bernanos, but what the French novelist said about the condition of a Christian writer...Read more
24Jul Feeding the gods July 24, 2018 Gil Bailie Blog Monumental Aztec Edifice of Skulls of Their Sacrificial Victims One of the great values of what John Paul II called...Read more
20Jun The Cost (and Benefit) of Discipleship June 20, 2018 Gil Bailie Blog “It is precisely the hard truths of our faith, those which the culture ignores and even despises, that have the...Read more
10May In This Time – a poem May 10, 2018 Gil Bailie Blog If the myth’s outworn, the legend broken, Useless even within the child’s story Since he sees well they now bring...Read more
30Apr Seeing Things Politically April 30, 2018 Gil Bailie Blog “… we see a growing incapacity in Europe to accept political disagreement and run the risk of electoral choice. The...Read more
From Anthropology to Social Theory
Keep the Faith
Looking ahead . . .
The Catholic meaning of the church
The Public Atmospherics of Health
Spiritual Adventure
Feeding the gods
The Cost (and Benefit) of Discipleship
In This Time – a poem
Seeing Things Politically