Lou de Laâge in “You will choose life”: “I am in the present, in the concrete”

Marie Deshayes: How did you come to this project? Lou de Laage: I did not know Stéphane Freiss before he offered me this role of a young Orthodox Jewish woman who is going to refuse the taboos. This intimate and personal film is his wink, his homage to his mother. The story of my character … Read more

Jeanne 2031: a concrete and spiritual way out of the current national and ecclesial stagnation

How to resist in depth the murderous logics of current politics and get through the ecclesial crisis? By going to the school of Saint Joan of Arc until 2031! A nine-year novena to learn from Saint Joan of Arc and thus prepare for the six-hundredth anniversary of her death (2031). It is a question of … Read more

Paglia: spirituality in care is not a generic feeling but concrete proximity

Presented the book of Dr. Carlo Alfredo Clerici and Don Tullio Proserpio, chaplain at the Cancer Institute of Milan. In the preface signed by Pope Francis, the urgent need for adequate training in the field, at the bedside of those who suffer, “to move in profound synergy with the entire caring community”. For the president … Read more

“The saints do not come from a “parallel world”, they germinate from concrete life”, notes Pope Francis

Dear brothers and sisters, hello ! I am happy to meet you at the end of the colloquium on “holiness today” organized by the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints. I greet and thank Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, the other superiors, the officials, the postulators and all the collaborators. I greet you all, you who come … Read more