05Aug

Human Nature

August 5, 2020 Gil Bailie

“Contrary to what our nihilists and relativists tell us, there is a human nature, and its resiliency is such that...

21Jul

The Intoxication of Violence

July 21, 2020 Gil Bailie

“Since satisfactory answers have not been found apart from Christ, there is an attempt today to cancel the questions or...

14Jul

July 14, 2020 Gil Bailie

“As unbelievers deny Revelation more decisively, as they put their denial into more consistent practice, it will become the more...

04Jul

July 4, 2020 Gil Bailie

My thoughts in these troubled times are sober and sobering ones. Ours is a period in history fraught with peril...

22Jun

June 22, 2020 Gil Bailie

“When mystery no longer counts,” then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger said in a 1996 speech, “politics must be converted into religion.” When...

15Jun

June 15, 2020 Gil Bailie

“If we project our own mimetic tangles upon society as a whole, the more entangled we are, the more rigid...

28May

May 28, 2020 Gil Bailie

Rereading what Hans Urs von Balthasar (quoting in passing Dietrich Bonhoeffer) has written brings to mind the role that Pope...

06May

May 6, 2020 Gil Bailie

Benedict XVI Writing in the 1980s, Joseph Ratzinger (now Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI) quoted a humorous couplet from the German...

30Apr

April 30, 2020 Gil Bailie

This lovely Richard Wilbur poem gives up new secrets every time I come back to it. Two Voices in a...

24Apr

April 24, 2020 Gil Bailie

Imagine reading a splendid poem – using the adjective with all its richness – and being “struck” by its loveliness....