16Feb

Annus Horribilis

February 16, 2021 Randy Coleman-Riese

It has been almost one year living in a global pandemic reality. The physical isolation resulting from the cautious distancing...

22Dec

Reflections on a Girard Christmas Card

December 22, 2020 Randy Coleman-Riese

In past years in celebration of Christmas we have posted a short excerpt from the Hoover Institutions Uncommon Knowledge series...

04Jul

July 4, 2020 Gil Bailie

My thoughts in these troubled times are sober and sobering ones. Ours is a period in history fraught with peril...

19Jan

January 19, 2019 Gil Bailie

Here is something Joseph Ratzinger told an interviewer in 1996, before he became pope: “ . . . the church...

06Jun

June 6, 2017 Gil Bailie

During his 40 days in the desert, Jesus was tempted to do things that would make the truth of his...

13Apr

April 13, 2017 Randy Coleman-Riese

On Holy Thursday in the Mass of the Lord’s Supper, we commemorate the last Passover meal the disciples shared with Jesus,...

29Mar

March 29, 2017 Gil Bailie

Some years ago, a friend of mine and I collaborated as part of a Lenten series of presentations at a...

29Nov

November 29, 2016 Gil Bailie

“Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” Matthew 6:21 That, it seems to me, is the synoptic...

04Jul

July 4, 2016 Randy Coleman-Riese

Some thoughts on the 240th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America. The ideas underlying the democratic...

24Jun

June 24, 2015 Gil Bailie

“They had been men of little faith, with their continual questioning and their childish egotism; but now they went out...