Tag Archives: the Catholic Church

Enthusiastically Ecclesisatic…

Posted on March 5, 2020 by Gil Bailie

“For myself,” said Origen, “I desire to be truly ecclesiastic.” He thought – and rightly – that there was no other way of being a Christian in the full sense. And anyone who is possessed by a similar desire will … Continue reading →

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The Catholic meaning of the church

Posted on January 4, 2019 by Gil Bailie

    In an interview in 1985, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger – the future Pope Benedict XVI – to his interviewer:   “My impression is that the authentically Catholic meaning of the reality ‘church’ is tacitly disappearing, without being expressly rejected. … Continue reading →

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The Predicament

Posted on March 10, 2018 by Gil Bailie

“There are still countries today where, even in the Catholic Church, the individual is in a situation reminiscent of that in which Kierkegaard found himself, in a national church that had fallen into liberalism: however willing the individual is to … Continue reading →

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Some Thoughts on The Common Good, The Catholic Church and The World…

Posted on June 2, 2017 by Gil Bailie

“The common good requires that we offer to all what Revelation has given us—and has given us to comprehend. Today, intelligence becomes a duty of charity. It is up to us, to us and to no one else, to transmit … Continue reading →

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