Monthly Archives: January 2017

Filling the Vacuum….

Posted on January 28, 2017 by Randy Coleman-Riese

Virgil tells Dante what it was that caused the Assyrian Queen, Semiramis, to be tormented in the region of the Inferno reserved for the lustful. Her sin, however, seems to have been more than just lust, which for Dante is … Continue reading →

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Roe v. Wade: The Tragedy of Our Age

Posted on January 27, 2017 by Randy Coleman-Riese

January is the month in which we remember the 1973 United State Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade. This weekend there are marches around the country by those who believe that court ruling was a tragedy. Significantly, the promoters … Continue reading →

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Sign of the Times – 10 Years on

Posted on January 18, 2017 by Gil Bailie

    In an article published January 6th 2007 in The Washington Post there appeared a story about the latest wrinkle in the eugenics revolution: A Texas company has started producing batches of ready-made embryos that single women and infertile … Continue reading →

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Sin & Death – a moebius strip

Posted on January 16, 2017 by Gil Bailie

For a while now I have thought about posting something about one of the most theologically influential verses in the New Testament, Romans 5:12, on which Augustine famously depended for his teaching on original sin. Readings from a recent daily … Continue reading →

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We Saw His Star In The East

Posted on January 8, 2017 by Randy Coleman-Riese

Of all the liturgical feasts in the Church calendar the feast of the Epiphany of the Lord seems to me to most reflect the mission of the Cornerstone Forum. For it is on this day the Church celebrates the light … Continue reading →

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Impatience . . .

Posted on January 3, 2017 by Gil Bailie

“It is better to bear uncertainty than to talk oneself into a decision that has no permanence. Genuine readiness already contains the seed of faith; untruth, on the other hand, that self-deception that pretends to views it does not really … Continue reading →

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Custody of the Eyes

Posted on January 2, 2017 by Gil Bailie

In a recent reflection (again) in the Magnificat, a remark by the Thomist philosopher Josef Pieper caught my eye, if you’ll pardon the pun (which you won’t have noticed until you read what Pieper said): The cultivation of the natural … Continue reading →

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