10Nov

Something Imponderable…

November 10, 2018 Randy Coleman-Riese

This Sunday marks the 100th anniversary of the end of “The War To End All Wars”. The conflict lasted over...

09Nov

The Religious Backdrop of the Vote

November 9, 2018 Randy Coleman-Riese

This past week people across the United States participated in the public ritual of voting. These days, though, it is...

29Oct

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

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...