02Nov Election Day Thoughts November 2, 2020 Gil Bailie Blog “Cultures are constituted by the union of the living and the dead in rituals of living memory. Never before …...Read more
28May a solitary Christian…without earthly hope May 28, 2020 Gil Bailie Blog Rereading what Hans Urs von Balthasar (quoting in passing Dietrich Bonhoeffer) has written brings to mind the role that Pope...Read more
28Nov Thanksgiving…and a note from St. Hilary November 28, 2019 Gil Bailie Blog There is so much for which we are grateful today: our families, our friends, our faith, and for all those...Read more
29Mar A Thirst for Communion March 29, 2019 Gil Bailie Blog Henri de Lubac “The story is told of a priest who, shortly after apostatizing, said to a visitor who...Read more
19Jan Keep the Faith January 19, 2019 Gil Bailie Blog Here is something Joseph Ratzinger told an interviewer in 1996, before he became pope: “ . . . the church...Read more
02Dec Expecting Advent December 2, 2018 Randy Coleman-Riese Blog The season of Advent has always been a time of expectation ever since the first one in that dusty corner...Read more
16Apr “Joy is in the gift of the Church” April 16, 2016 Gil Bailie Blog The shabbiest tuppeny doll will rejoice a baby’s heart for half the year, but your mature gentleman’ll go yawning his...Read more
21Jun The Church is the place June 21, 2015 Gil Bailie Blog “The Church is the place where the process of conforming humanity to the person and event of Christ is begun,...Read more
15Jun The nature of the Church… June 15, 2015 Gil Bailie Blog “It is in the nature of the Church to provoke the anger and attack of the world.” Hilaire Belloc, who...Read more
07Jun A Sunday Afternoon Thought . . . June 7, 2015 Gil Bailie Blog Russell Shaw: “The persecution of the Catholic Church and other morally conservative religious bodies has begun in the United States....Read more
Election Day Thoughts
a solitary Christian…without earthly hope
Thanksgiving…and a note from St. Hilary
A Thirst for Communion
Keep the Faith
Expecting Advent
“Joy is in the gift of the Church”
The Church is the place
The nature of the Church…
A Sunday Afternoon Thought . . .