01Jul

Remembering Ralph Stanley and Bill Cunningham

July 1, 2016 Randy Coleman-Riese

Ralph Stanley Bill Cunningham Among the many who ended their earthly pilgrimages in the past week are the two men...

19Jun

Father’s Day Thoughts

June 19, 2016 Gil Bailie

Here is something from Charles Péguy to consider on Father’s Day: There is only one adventurer in the world, as...

09Jun

June 9, 2016 Gil Bailie

Freedom exists, not that one might choose according to his or her passing desires, but that one might move toward...

06Jun

June 6, 2016 Randy Coleman-Riese

The modern world as a whole is a world that thinks only about its own old age. It is a...

05Jun

June 5, 2016 Randy Coleman-Riese

“Americans interested in neither nationalism nor socialism,” writes Jonah Goldberg, “are once more entering an era of political homelessness.” All...

01Jun

June 1, 2016 Gil Bailie

The preeminent school of self-sacrificial love is the natural family, consisting of children born of the nuptial fidelity of their...

29May

May 29, 2016 Gil Bailie

For close to three centuries, in all institutions of higher learning, it has not been intellectually respectable to deal with...

27May

May 27, 2016 Gil Bailie

Christianity has never produced proofs in the sense given to the word by gross men; its best and only proof...

26May

May 26, 2016 Randy Coleman-Riese

Beatrice instructs Dante on the Gospel and how it has been preached to the world: They do not count...

19May

May 19, 2016 Gil Bailie

“Enthusiasm is a foul mockery of pure zeal. True goods are peacefully desired, sought without eagerness, possessed without elation, and...