April 16, 2023 – ESM – Readers of Hans Urs von Balthasar will not miss the allusion to the essay “Theology and Holiness” in the title chosen for this memory of Benedict XVI on the occasion of the 96th anniversary of his birth, which falls today. Benedict XVI – To enlarge the image ► To … Read more
Joseph Ratzinger He was born in 1927 in the Bavarian town of Marktl am Inn, the son of a rural policeman who moved numerous times during the first 10 years of the life of the until now Pope. He was a deeply believing Catholic and hostile to National Socialism: “He saw with incorruptible clarity that … Read more
Joseph Ratzinger será recordado como el Papa que abandonó el trono de Pedro. De poco sirven su extensísima obra teológica, su limpieza –bien intencionada pero poco eficaz, según sus críticos- de un Vaticano bajo sospecha, su vigilancia férrea del cumplimiento de la doctrina o su lucha contra las ideologías dominantes que daban la espalda a … Read more
Discovering the village of Bolognano in the Majella park, through the link with contemporary art and Joseph Beuys. Bolognano is a village set in the park of the Majella, in the province of Pescara, far from the frenzy and speed of our daily life. But it is dense place of history and of artfull of … Read more
Last week we talked about the philosophy of history, very benjaminian, by Joseph Salvador, a form of counter-history which discovers in the “old” the seeds of the “new”. A altneue Geschichte according to an expression that can be attributed to Franz Kafka and the spirit of the city of Prague. We have thus understood that … Read more
Six essays, including several with a feminist tone, three novels, three stories, two anthologies, a tribute, a collection… Here are the brief reviews of sixteen notable works in this umpteenth week of the year. Feminism. “Holding Your Tongue” by Julie Abbou Between sociolinguistics and anthropology of language, Hold your tongue explores the complex articulation between … Read more
The artist from Trinidad and Tobago based in London, Anthony Joseph, comes to put his words full of fight and spirituality, lulled by the musical prowess of his high-flying musicians during this 34th edition of the Jazzèbre festival. He presents this Thursday, September 29, 2022 on the stage of ElMediator (at 8:30 p.m.), his latest … Read more
In a frontal and normative process, in which it is possible to say about God by speaking of the human being, it is difficult to cultivate pietas towards the Lord and towards our fellow men. In this regard, Saverio Lorusso, in his book “Joseph son of Jacob, man and faith”, focuses on the revelatory communication … Read more
Colombia is a great focus of Josephine spirituality and the year of Saint Joseph represented a great ‘explosion’ that has not stopped. The Mothers of the Forsaken and San José de la Montaña testify to this “Here Saint Joseph falls in love with anyone”, recounts enthusiastically mother Marissa de San José. She did so by … Read more