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, [...]
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 [...]
That Sunday the Gospel reading closed with this golden clasp: “If you, who are naughty, give good things to your children, how much more will the Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to [...]
This was in Switzerland, but it could have been in Portugal or anywhere else. An old woman went into a self-service restaurant, ordered a bowl of broth, paid and sat down at one of the free [...]
I think that, in the World and in the Church today, many people -and I, a sinner, too- live in heresy. That’s right: vital heresy. This expression was used, quite a few years ago, by Igor [...]
One of the evils of today’s politics is the search for visibility, the preoccupation with doing things for the media, gestures and phrases that will be seen in the media. Inaugurating a [...]
It was mid-morning and the children, after recess, were returning to their seats at school. One of them, however, remained standing, staring out of the window, while the teacher repeated, in a [...]
My friend Pedro María Zabilde, in his book ‘Happiness is not for fools’, tells us a delightful episode: he entered a large and neat village barber’s shop and found a [...]
The news came in the “Diario de Noticias” and, what do you want? I had to laugh. In the beautiful homeland of John Paul II, Poland, the rosary of the 21st century was born: it is in [...]
Saint Anthony Mary Claret, a 19th century figure, used to say that we should have “the heart of a child towards God, the heart of a mother towards other people and the heart of a judge [...]
