27Jan

Winter 2023 Newsletter

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

The Saintly Benedict XVI

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...

12May

May 12, 2019 Gil Bailie

Paul Evdokimov “Sooner or later, all nihilism destroys itself from within with the frightening question, ‘What for?’ And sexual nihilism...

14Apr

April 14, 2019 Gil Bailie

Just before entering into the spirit of Holy Week, however, I am prompted by a piece about the retrofitting of...

04Jan

January 4, 2019 Gil Bailie

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger – Benedict XVI In an interview in 1985, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger – the future Pope Benedict XVI...