29Mar

No Father…No Family…No Faith

March 29, 2017 Gil Bailie

Some years ago, a friend of mine and I collaborated as part of a Lenten series of presentations at a...

19Feb

A Remedy for Sentimentality

February 19, 2017 Gil Bailie

Mother of Sorrows – Vonn Hartung A decade ago Elizabeth Bailie, Gil Bailie’s wife, was called from this life to...

09Feb

February 9, 2017 Gil Bailie

As I have often said from the podium, it helps to clear away the “spirit of the age” clutter to...

18Jan

January 18, 2017 Gil Bailie

In an article published January 6th 2007 in The Washington Post there appeared a story about the latest wrinkle in...

16Jan

January 16, 2017 Gil Bailie

For a while now I have thought about posting something about one of the most theologically influential verses in the...

03Jan

January 3, 2017 Gil Bailie

“It is better to bear uncertainty than to talk oneself into a decision that has no permanence. Genuine readiness already...

02Jan

January 2, 2017 Gil Bailie

In a recent reflection (again) in the Magnificat, a remark by the Thomist philosopher Josef Pieper caught my eye, if...

30Dec

December 30, 2016 Gil Bailie

In his Trojan Horse in the City of God, Dietrich von Hildebrand wrote of the way a particular historical situation...

21Dec

December 21, 2016 Gil Bailie

Many people believe either that Christianity is nonsense or that any form of it that would be recognizable to the...

06Dec

December 6, 2016 Gil Bailie

For years I have found the Church’s liturgical calendar more helpful than the secularized Gregorian calendar in reckoning my place...