14Feb

A Mailbox Full of Valentines for Grace

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

Logos

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...

28Jan

January 28, 2017 Randy Coleman-Riese

Virgil tells Dante what it was that caused the Assyrian Queen, Semiramis, to be tormented in the region of the...

27Jan

January 27, 2017 Randy Coleman-Riese

January is the month in which we remember the 1973 United State Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade. This...

18Jan

January 18, 2017 Gil Bailie

In an article published January 6th 2007 in The Washington Post there appeared a story about the latest wrinkle in...

16Jan

January 16, 2017 Gil Bailie

For a while now I have thought about posting something about one of the most theologically influential verses in the...

08Jan

January 8, 2017 Randy Coleman-Riese

Of all the liturgical feasts in the Church calendar the feast of the Epiphany of the Lord seems to me...

03Jan

January 3, 2017 Gil Bailie

“It is better to bear uncertainty than to talk oneself into a decision that has no permanence. Genuine readiness already...

02Jan

January 2, 2017 Gil Bailie

In a recent reflection (again) in the Magnificat, a remark by the Thomist philosopher Josef Pieper caught my eye, if...

31Dec

December 31, 2016 Randy Coleman-Riese

In 1940 when Europe was being ravaged by war a 33 year old W. H. Auden penned his ‘New Year...