If it were your childyou would fill the seawith ships of any flag. You would want them all together, in millionsmaking the bridge to let your children pass throughVery attentive, you would never leave your children alone. You would cast shadowso their eyes do not get burnt,you would cover themso that they do not get […]
I am filled with astonishment and sorrow after reading the essay Oilarra kukuruka [The Cock Crows] (Erein 2020), which has just been published by Xipri Arbelbide, a Basque priest and friend from Heleta (Lower Navarre). It revolves around the death throes of the Catholic Church in our country, and I am astonished that the author […]
You are looking for an experience: God, beauty… This means that you see what you are looking for as an object. In this case, simply explore who sees. When you explore really, you will understand that you look for who sees. It is the most direct way, if we can talk about a way. Be […]
Mr. President of the United States of America: I wish you Peace and Goodness. It would be pretentious for me to address these lines to you thinking that they could even reach you. It is not so. It is only my way to join the universal outcry that expresses pressing concerns in this crucial moment […]
Bells are tolling for us the homelands of pain must be reclaimed, daring to erase borders committing the audacity of compassion. (Gioconda Belli) Translated from Spanish by Andrea González Tamayo
To ever succeed, this new view needs to be soft spoken. You see, we can say, here is reality, is it not worthy of stunned wonder? What more could we want of a God? Yes, we give up a God who intervenes on our behalf. We give up heaven and hell. But we gain ourselves, […]
God is the most powerful symbol we have created. Shall we use the God word? It is our choice. Mine is a tentative “yes”. I want God to mean the vast ceaseless creativity of the only universe we know of, ours. What do we gain by using the God word? I suspect a great deal, […]
Russian astronaut Serguéi Kud-Sverchkóv recorded and shared through social media a video showing the glow of planet Earth, Northern Lights and dawn as seen from the International Space Station.You can weep with so much beauty. We fly over the northeast of the Pacific Ocean. Quickly we move to the North Atlantic and from total darkness […]
Roger Lenaers is an elderly, wise Belgian Jesuit, author of books such as Another Christianity is Possible and Although there isn’t a God up there[1], written with intelligence and soul for those who want to go on being Jesus’ disciples without cutting themselves off from today’s world with its worldview, science and language. Having devoted […]
Happy those who feel the permanent need to generate comfort through small gestures of closeness, tenderness and affection. Happy those who are moved by the images that show pain, misery, hunger, war and who strive not to have their insides closed by the bonds of consumption, isolation and selfishness. Happy those who have seen that […]