25Apr

From Stumbling Block to Cornerstone

April 25, 2024 Gil Bailie

Reflection by Gil Bailie When I look back over the more than 30 years during which I have explored, and...

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...

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...

13Oct

October 13, 2022 Randy Coleman-Riese

René Girard came to Stanford University in 1981 after a prestigious academic career at Johns Hopkins. Robert Harrison, one of...

17Jun

June 17, 2022 Randy Coleman-Riese

Poems from a Diary 1974 Who will last? And what? The wind will stay, and the blind man's blindness when...

26Mar

March 26, 2022 Gil Bailie

Hans Urs von Balthasar Hans Urs von Balthasar, quoting Reinhold Schneider: “Faith has set it mark on history to such...

09Mar

March 9, 2022 Gil Bailie

“ becomes most visible where the secular power begins to dwindle, where earthly certainty sees decline and doom as inevitable....

02Mar

March 2, 2022 Randy Coleman-Riese

Lent begins this year, as always, with the imposition on worshiper’s foreheads of the ashen remains of burnt palm...

11Feb

February 11, 2022 Gil Bailie

“Isaac reopened the wells dug by the servants of his father Abraham and blocked up by the Philistines after Abraham’s...

09Feb

February 9, 2022 Gil Bailie

“Either everything means something, or nothing means anything. But the first requires belief in God, while the second is perhaps too...