29May

Memorial Day

May 29, 2017 Randy Coleman-Riese

For the past eleven years just prior to the Memorial day weekend, Saint Vincent High School in Petaluma, California has...

22May

Message in a bottle….

May 22, 2017 Gil Bailie

Ten years ago Gil Bailie spent time reading University of Pennsylvania scholar Philip Rieff’s works with the following results… To...

11May

May 11, 2017 Gil Bailie

The word “tradition” and the word “treason” come from the same root. The very name “modernity” self-consciously used to describe...

13Apr

April 13, 2017 Randy Coleman-Riese

On Holy Thursday in the Mass of the Lord’s Supper, we commemorate the last Passover meal the disciples shared with Jesus,...

29Mar

March 29, 2017 Gil Bailie

Some years ago, a friend of mine and I collaborated as part of a Lenten series of presentations at a...

02Mar

March 2, 2017 Randy Coleman-Riese

The website The Catholic Thing has published a Lenten reflection by Gil Bailie entitled, The Multiplication Table. It is a...

19Feb

February 19, 2017 Gil Bailie

Mother of Sorrows – Vonn Hartung A decade ago Elizabeth Bailie, Gil Bailie’s wife, was called from this life to...

14Feb

February 14, 2017 Randy Coleman-Riese

Thomas Merton’s poem Grace’s House was frequently mentioned in Gil Bailie’s talks from the 1980’s and 90’s. I offer an...

09Feb

February 9, 2017 Gil Bailie

As I have often said from the podium, it helps to clear away the “spirit of the age” clutter to...