29Oct

The Public Atmospherics of Health

October 29, 2018 Gil Bailie

Here is a very timely message from the pen of Hans Urs von Balthasar, written decades before the current crisis...

19Oct

New Items from the Archives & Notes on a New Perspective

October 19, 2018 Randy Coleman-Riese

Gil Bailie c. 1985 When Gil Bailie first encountered the work of René Girard in the mid-1980s he had for...

09Oct

October 9, 2018 Gil Bailie

George Bernanos I am no George Bernanos, but what the French novelist said about the condition of a Christian writer...

03Sep

September 3, 2018 Randy Coleman-Riese

Reflections for Labor Day: Simone Weil God gave me being in order that I should give it back to him....

11Aug

August 11, 2018 Randy Coleman-Riese

Here in California it looks like we are in for another difficult and dangerous fire season. The skies are again...

24Jul

July 24, 2018 Gil Bailie

Monumental Aztec Edifice of Skulls of Their Sacrificial Victims One of the great values of what John Paul II called...

04Jul

July 4, 2018 Randy Coleman-Riese

We are aware (and thankful) that we have many friends and supporters who live in countries around the world. Gil...

20Jun

June 20, 2018 Gil Bailie

“It is precisely the hard truths of our faith, those which the culture ignores and even despises, that have the...

26May

May 26, 2018 Randy Coleman-Riese

David Jones Recently I have been reading In Parenthesis by David Jones. It is an epic prose poem dealing with...

19May

May 19, 2018 Randy Coleman-Riese

Amid the jarring juxtaposition of a recent school shooting and a royal wedding joining the now too familiar cacophony of...