Readers know that, in the Olympic Games, only athletes who have reached the minimum required in their respective sport (diving, swimming, running, sailing…) take part. And only those who [...]
Each person is a word from God that is never repeated. Or a melody that no one else can sing. They say that no two auroras or snowflakes are the same and that after creating a human being, God [...]
“Some say that happiness lives far away. Others say it resides close by, in our own home. But true happiness lives in the cradle of a child born of love”. I don’t know if Freud [...]
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 year 2002 was proclaimed “Year of Mountains, Oceans and Ecology”. Let us toast to the United Nations, who had the happy idea. And let us salute St. Francis, prince of ecologists, [...]
Touching and wise, that fragile girl fleeing from the lava of a volcano in the Philippines, carrying a child almost as big as she was on her back. A man said to her, on seeing her collapsed: [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
