De dioses y hombres (2010, Xavier Beauvois) es una excelente representación de un suceso real. El director francés acota los momentos más significativos de un proceso, y ciñe su relato a cada elemento esencial, en una magnífica labor de engranaje de unas escenas tocadas por la elipsis, que se nos presentan como breves apuntes a … Read more
For this year 2023, the Strenna is entitled: Like Levain in the human family today. It develops the Salesian intuition of the commitment of the laity of the Salesian family in the Church and in society. He specifies: the first committed are the young people themselves, called to become “salt of the earth and light … Read more
But in the face of this frenzy, it is possible that Christians, despite themselves, are a little blind, almost passive, embarked on the great river of our consumerist societies. As my sister Marine often repeats: “In fact, we give each other gifts, but we don’t need anything!” Way that to say it is less the … Read more
ODESSA, UKRAINE – MARCH 05: An instructor discusses urban combat as Ukrainian civilians undergo basic military training at a volunteer center in a state educational institution, before an expected Russian assault on March 5, 2022 in Odessa, Ukraine. The Ukrainian volunteers are trained by former, reserve and veteran Ukrainian officers. Russian forces invading Ukraine from … Read more
World reference in palliative care, Xavier Gómez-Batiste is the scientific director of the ‘Comprehensive Care Program for People with Advanced Illnesses’ of the ‘la Caixa’ Foundation. The program, which since its launch in 2008 has implemented 65 psychosocial care teams, with nearly 300 professionals, and has attended to more than 600,000 people, including patients and … Read more
François de Sales stands at the crossroads of the 16th and 17th centuries, at the end of the religious wars and the Counter-Reformation, where scientific and cultural discoveries upset the vision of the world. François was deeply marked by it. He knew how to discern the calls of God there. Bishop of Geneva in 1602, … Read more
Last Monday, June 20, the Jesuits Javier Campos Morales SJ and Joaquín Mora Salazar, SJ were assassinated inside the Cerocahui temple, in the Sierra Tarahumara of Chihuahua. In that remote village they lived and worked. Javier had been accompanying the Rarámuri for half a century; Joaquín arrived for the first time in 1976 and had … Read more