18Feb

A Presidential Lenten Valentine…

February 18, 2024 Randy Coleman-Riese

This month provides a number of themes for reflection, our national holiday honoring Presidents (specifically the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln...

21Feb

Truth as the Reigning Principle

February 21, 2023 Gil Bailie

Today’s prize for the combination of breadth and depth goes once again to Joseph Ratzinger, whose 1985 analysis of our...

11Feb

February 11, 2023 Gil Bailie

One of the many salient insights to which Benedict XVI/Joseph Ratzinger often alluded was his conviction that when we cease...

31Dec

December 31, 2022 Randy Coleman-Riese

I was received into the Roman Catholic Church at Easter 2006. I was 54 years old. My decision to become...

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...

24Dec

December 24, 2022 Randy Coleman-Riese

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

07Dec

December 7, 2022 Gil Bailie

“The anonymous medium of language can be harmed by incessant lying and thus become unsuitable for inscribing one’s personal truth...

09Mar

March 9, 2022 Gil Bailie

“The Holy Spirit reveals to each age that side of the divine truth which has been specially reserved for it,...

22Aug

August 22, 2020 Randy Coleman-Riese

Natural Law and Human Rights: Toward a Recovery of Practical Reason (Catholic Ideas for a Secular World) by Pierre Manent...

19Feb

February 19, 2020 Gil Bailie

“Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and...