07Sep

The Task at Hand . . .

September 7, 2022 Gil Bailie

Culture is the soul of a civilization and religion is the soul of a culture. Once a civilization loses its...

02Mar

Ash Wednesday, Armageddon, and Apocalypse

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...

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...

04Jan

January 4, 2022 Gil Bailie

Henri de Lubac All has taken place as if the normal domain of man, even the believing man, were the...

03Sep

September 3, 2021 Randy Coleman-Riese

As we approach the twentieth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001 news outlets, internet pundits, and all...

02Jan

January 2, 2021 Randy Coleman-Riese

Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake? Soren Kierkegaard Some...

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...

23Nov

November 23, 2019 Randy Coleman-Riese

Thank you to those who have responded to our Fall Appeal so far! We are grateful to all who find...

09Nov

November 9, 2018 Randy Coleman-Riese

This past week people across the United States participated in the public ritual of voting. These days, though, it is...

02Mar

March 2, 2018 Randy Coleman-Riese

The following comes from an article posted on The Atlantic magazine website: In 1598, a European miner working in the...