Tag Archives: politics

Following 9/11: A Prophetic Osama Bin Laden

Posted on September 23, 2021 by Randy Coleman-Riese

In preparing for the In Memorium blog post earlier this month I had been rereading Lawrence Wright’s 2006 Pulitzer Prize winning book The Looming Tower – Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. In the book Wright referenced an interview … Continue reading →

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From Faith to Politics to Gnosticism

Posted on June 22, 2020 by Gil Bailie

“When mystery no longer counts,” then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger said in a 1996 speech, “politics must be converted into religion.” When the Christian mysteries are lost — the loss measured most accurately by the decay into ritual triviality of the Eucharistic … Continue reading →

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A Harvard Law Professor’s view…

Posted on November 5, 2016 by Randy Coleman-Riese

IN a previous post, ‘Numbers’, reflecting on the deathworks in the era of post Roe v Wade abortion in the United States I wrote that our hope in such circumstances lies outside the machinations of our legal and political systems. … Continue reading →

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Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar

Posted on September 25, 2016 by Randy Coleman-Riese

After having spent the past two and a half years editing and transferring Gil Bailie’s cassette recordings of Reflections on Dante’s Divine Comedy to the world of digital audio, I am now ready to take on the next transition task. … Continue reading →

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Political Homelessness

Posted on June 5, 2016 by Randy Coleman-Riese

“Americans interested in neither nationalism nor socialism,” writes Jonah Goldberg, “are once more entering an era of political homelessness.” All the more is it the case that Catholics determined to follow their faith and live it robustly in the public … Continue reading →

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