28Mar

The Middle Coming of Christ and René Girard

March 28, 2023 Gil Bailie

For Benedict XVI, the Second Coming of Christ occurs, not only in a final and definitive form, but also in...

21Feb

Truth as the Reigning Principle

February 21, 2023 Gil Bailie

Today’s prize for the combination of breadth and depth goes once again to Joseph Ratzinger, whose 1985 analysis of our...

11Feb

February 11, 2023 Gil Bailie

One of the many salient insights to which Benedict XVI/Joseph Ratzinger often alluded was his conviction that when we cease...

27Jan

January 27, 2023 The Cornerstone Forum

Novus Ordo at The Cornerstone Forum Dear Friends, 2023 is upon us and with it brings what feels like (to...

07Jan

January 7, 2023 Gil Bailie

I devote a great deal of my morning spiritual reading to rereading books that have become dear to me, many...

31Dec

December 31, 2022 Randy Coleman-Riese

I was received into the Roman Catholic Church at Easter 2006. I was 54 years old. My decision to become...

30Dec

December 30, 2022 Gil Bailie

At the moment of this posting, Benedict XVI is in his last days or moments on earth. As we hold...

31May

May 31, 2020 Randy Coleman-Riese

In an earlier post Gil Bailie quoted from Hans Urs Von Balthasar suggesting Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s current role might...

28May

May 28, 2020 Gil Bailie

Rereading what Hans Urs von Balthasar (quoting in passing Dietrich Bonhoeffer) has written brings to mind the role that Pope...

06May

May 6, 2020 Gil Bailie

Benedict XVI Writing in the 1980s, Joseph Ratzinger (now Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI) quoted a humorous couplet from the German...