A young man was leaving a nightclub in Rio de Janeiro in the early hours of the morning when he saw two workers sleeping on boards at the edge of a building under construction. Then,” he [...]
I have found I don’t know where an apocryphal version of Salm 22, which I have translated and completed thus: “The television is my shepherd, I shall not want; on comfortable couches [...]
That Sunday the Gospel reading closed with this golden key: “If you who are naughty give good things to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father not give the Holy Spirit to [...]
The typical heresy of our days is that of those who want to make the Church a “self-service” where everyone chooses the truths and rules as they please, taking some and leaving [...]
My friend Pedro Maria Zabilde, in his book Happiness is not for fools, tells us a delightful episode: he went into a large, clean village barber’s shop and came across a well-bred barber, a [...]
The Brazilian Indians who carried Father José de Anchieta’s chests, tired of everything, sighed: “We are heartless!” I was touched by this expression when reading the [...]
If my dear reader has not heard of William Osler, it is enough to know that he was one of the most brilliant doctors of his generation (1849-1919) and that his life story fills two volumes of [...]
In ancient meditations on Hell, a terrible sentence was applied to Plato and Aristotle: “Woe to you if you are praised where you are not and tormented where you are”. The famous [...]
With his wand as a radar, a blind man was walking along Rua do Carmo, in Lisbon. He couldn’t see the kids playing and jumping on their way home from school, he couldn’t see the [...]
The news came in a daily newspaper and made me laugh. The “21st century Rosary” was born in Poland: it is shaped like a credit card with small drawings of Our Lady and John Paul II. [...]
