30Nov

A Simon of Cyrene Opportunity – Earning a Place in the Story

November 30, 2018 Randy Coleman-Riese

Gil Bailie recently gave a presentation to the priests and seminarians of St. Patrick’s University and Seminary in Menlo Park....

17Nov

Bells & Whistles and Our Annual Plea for Support

November 17, 2018 Randy Coleman-Riese

The ‘Fall Appeal’, which you may read by following the link, is our annual foray into fundraising and was once...

12Nov

November 12, 2018 Randy Coleman-Riese

The journal First Things has recently featured on its website a short essay by Peter J. Leithart entitled ‘Clashing Victimocracies!’ ...

10Nov

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

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...