09Mar

When earthly certainty sees decline and doom as inevitable …

March 9, 2022 Gil Bailie

“ becomes most visible where the secular power begins to dwindle, where earthly certainty sees decline and doom as inevitable....

09Mar

The Theodrama

March 9, 2022 Gil Bailie

“The Holy Spirit reveals to each age that side of the divine truth which has been specially reserved for it,...

05Mar

March 5, 2022 Gil Bailie

“It is evident that Christianity, however degraded and distorted by cruelty and intolerance, must always exert a modifying influence on...

05Mar

March 5, 2022 Gil Bailie

“While regretting the absence of great figures in our time, we must not forget the army of those nameless ones...

05Mar

March 5, 2022 Gil Bailie

We still speak of the “theater of war” even though all but the last vestiges of what our ancestors and...

02Mar

March 2, 2022 Randy Coleman-Riese

Lent begins this year, as always, with the imposition on worshiper’s foreheads of the ashen remains of burnt palm...

28Feb

February 28, 2022 Gil Bailie

The Catholic theologian Henri de Lubac was no reactionary. Quite the contrary, he was a man of great learning and...

21Feb

February 21, 2022 Randy Coleman-Riese

Last week we reposted a piece Gil Bailie wrote in 2009 for Valentines Day. His reflections brought to mind a...

13Feb

February 13, 2022 Gil Bailie

(The following was originally posted on gil-bailie.com in 2009 – enjoy…) Valentine’s Day in the Islamic world brings out the...

11Feb

February 11, 2022 Gil Bailie

“Even in these times of intoxication mingled with anxiety, amidst the most pressing necessities, it is the role of the...