Let us toast to the United Nations, which had the happy idea of proclaiming the “years” of the mountains, of water, of forests? And let us salute Saint Francis, prince of ecologists, [...]
“The shadow of God is vast” – said Frederick Nietzsche, after announcing that God was dead. God was dead, and so human beings were left orphans, alone on earth, without any [...]
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 [...]
It was after the news, the prime time on TV, and a tart was throwing this enormity in her boyfriend’s face, as if it were the most natural thing in the world: “It’s none of your [...]
A young woman in her twenties – a “girl in bloom”, as Vinicius de Morais would say – eager to take life seriously and, who knows, to consecrate herself to God, confessed [...]
In Henri-François Rey’s novel The Mechanical Pianos, a couple converses like this: “- I have discovered a label that seems really made for both of us – confesses the husband. [...]
One of the evils of politics today is the search for visibility, the preoccupation with doing mediatic things, gestures and phrases that pass in the media. This is what Manuela Ferreira Leite [...]
That Sunday the Gospel reading ended with this pearl: “If you, who are evil, give good things to your children, how much more will the Father in heaven not give the Holy Spirit to those who [...]
There are words that stay in our hearts for life, like those I heard some time ago when visiting an elderly couple. The old woman, sitting on a bench in the dark, poor kitchen, tears in her eyes, [...]
A friend of mine, who’s lost for coffee and can’t even smell it, asks for “a bastard” when he goes to the corner bar. He’s referring to the miserable [...]
