Resentment is a moral pain that results from an offence. The person who suffers from it is unable to forget that offence. And often it is the same person who imagines it. In any case, he or she [...]
Last summer the basketball player Ricky Rubio, a basketball wizard, retired before the World Cup. A serious setback for the national team. Before that, he was deeply affected by the death of his [...]
Recently, the media have filled many of their pages to the point of exhaustion about the fact and the reactions – the vast majority of them condemnatory – of a famous kiss given by a [...]
We live in a secularised and anti-clerical environment. It is fashionable to bash churches, whether Catholic, Protestant or Evangelical. Often, those who do so pass themselves off as progressive [...]
Martin Luther is credited with the phrase “pecca fortiter, sed crede fortius” which translates as “sin strongly, but believe more strongly“. Rightly understood, there is [...]
In the pages of a prestigious writer on spirituality, I came across this autobiographical episode which I am transcribing. It is a rather “profane” example, for which I apologise, [...]
Educating is not an easy task. It requires a long road of learning by trial and error. Nor is it free of conflicts and difficulties, but it can also be the most fascinating and enriching of [...]
Looking through my notes for something interesting to comment on, I found this comic strip by Pablo Coelho entitled: “How to keep hell full” which narrates the following fable: [...]
In my years as a theology student, an older missionary used to repeat with some frequency this adage: “Missus, missus, non intromissus“. With it, he was trying to get rid of a defect [...]
A 16th century Spanish poet, Francisco de la Torre, said that “man is the only animal that laughs“, adding “and cries, but no one would have more reason to cry“. Although [...]
