From good Samaritan to profiteer, the fuel shortage reveals the characters

Gasoline supply difficulties bring out certain character traits. The profiteer, the good Samaritan, the cautious… In a caricatural and humorous way, Aleteia has endeavored to sketch different portraits in the face of this unprecedented situation. Do you know that Aleteia can only survive thanks to the generosity of its readers? I GIVE Aleteia really needs … Read more

Called to be and to act like the Good Samaritan, here is the Church of the Council

The celebration of the 60th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council represents an invitation to reflect on the importance and relevance of its teaching, as a compass for the journey of the Church today. For Pope Francis, in fact, the four main conciliar Constitutions, as he wrote in the letter addressed … Read more

Brother Bordino, modern day Samaritan

CENTENARY OF BIRTH Seven years have passed since the beatification of Brother Luigi Bordino, a professed religious of the Congregation of the Brothers of St. Joseph Cottolengo. The biography of his short earthly life, only 55 years old, tells us of a Christianity embodied in the depths of his time, immediately alongside the least and … Read more