Tag Archives: civilization

Standing in awe . . .

Posted on April 24, 2020 by Gil Bailie

Imagine reading a splendid poem – using the adjective with all its richness – and being “struck” by its loveliness. It arrests the reader. It takes him to a new place, as we say. It enchants him. Or say one … Continue reading →

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Civilization & Barbarism

Posted on July 21, 2019 by Gil Bailie

Hans Urs von Balthasar, quoting and commenting on observations of the French novelist George Bernanos: “The thing we still call ‘civilization’ has outstripped every form of barbarism in accomplishing works of destruction. It now threatens to destroy, not only the … Continue reading →

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Feeding the gods

Posted on July 24, 2018 by Gil Bailie

One of the great values of what John Paul II called the Splendor of Truth is that it shatters even the most impervious ideological barriers erected to hide it. A recent archeological find in Mexico City detailed in Science magazine … Continue reading →

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A Fool’s Errand

Posted on June 1, 2016 by Gil Bailie

The preeminent school of self-sacrificial love is the natural family, consisting of children born of the nuptial fidelity of their biological parents. The school of self-governing virtue is a healthy and well-formed moral conscience. A society will conduce to the … Continue reading →

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Forgetting

Posted on February 10, 2016 by Randy Coleman-Riese

“Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.”   – G. K. Chesterton

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