28Nov

A Civilizational Crisis

November 28, 2023 Gil Bailie

Bari Weiss delivered a lecture at The Federalist Society * on November 10, 2023, in which she gave what I...

22Mar

Interdividuality … a reflection by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger

March 22, 2023 The Cornerstone Forum

We receive our lives each day from without, from others who are not ourselves yet relate to us in...

02Feb

February 2, 2023 Gil Bailie

“The loss of the humility of being leads to the emergence of a perverse kind of humility, one in which...

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...

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...

29Oct

October 29, 2022 Gil Bailie

Reviewing the manuscript on which I am now working, I came upon one of Joseph Ratzinger’s beautiful insights. I would...

22Jun

June 22, 2020 Gil Bailie

“When mystery no longer counts,” then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger said in a 1996 speech, “politics must be converted into religion.” When...

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...

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...

23Mar

March 23, 2019 Gil Bailie

Joseph Ratzinger Before he became Pope Benedict XVI, Joseph Ratzinger summarized something written by the French mystic and Jewish writer...