04Jan

Our particular moment in the drama . . .

January 4, 2022 Gil Bailie

Disciple: one who knows the story of which his life is necessarily situated. The fulfillment of his human vocation will...

04Jan

Henri de Lubac

January 4, 2022 Gil Bailie

Henri de Lubac All has taken place as if the normal domain of man, even the believing man, were the...

04Dec

December 4, 2021 Gil Bailie

In a lecture on the work of historian Christopher Dawson given in 1993, Russell Hittinger wrote: “From his first published...

18Nov

November 18, 2021 Gil Bailie

“There are certain times when one sees springing up in every direction the symptoms of an evil which catches on...

01Nov

November 1, 2021 Gil Bailie

“If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you …” Rudyard...

30May

May 30, 2021 Gil Bailie

The desacralizing effect of the Jewish and Christian revelation which René Girard so masterfully explicated is not to be confused...

09Dec

December 9, 2020 Gil Bailie

Try to guess when the following observation was made: … the more completely secularized public education becomes . . ....

06Dec

December 6, 2020 Gil Bailie

For if each individual allows himself to be led by his personal whim, and betakes himself to what pleases him...

02Nov

November 2, 2020 Gil Bailie

“Cultures are constituted by the union of the living and the dead in rituals of living memory. Never before …...

29Sep

September 29, 2020 Gil Bailie

In whatever ‘fire storms’ one finds oneself in these days (and we have just come through another literal one here...