I found the words I heard a few days ago from a young priest from Ceuta both surprising and deeply sad. Jesús Francisco Molina said: “The Church is not an NGO.” “The Church’s main function is not to care for those in need; it is certainly one of its main functions, but the Church is […]
Many animals –ranging from worms to mammals, including insects, molluscs, amphibians, fish, reptiles and birds– feel pain. And they do not simply feel a specific, isolated pain, but rather a general malaise of the organism. In different ways and to different degrees, but they suffer nevertheless. We human beings are part of an immense planetary […]
We walk the trail of our life with no shoes on the cliffs above the sea. And our history is the history of the waves that break below, at our feet: splattering our faces with salt water, strongly, at times, whereas other times they are weak when they reach us, as if the pain of […]
