What astonishment overwhelmed me one recent morning when I listened to the voice of a young woman being examined by Louis Daufresne on his program, Le Grand Témoin, on Radio Notr...
It was a year ago. Alvaro Mutis passed away. This great Colombian writer deserves to be read and reread. This brilliant monarchist project...
“We are dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants; we see more and farther than they do; not that our gaze is sharp, nor our stature great, but…”.
The Marcial Maciel affair forces us to confront the question of Evil. Our era avoids engaging with it. What do we know of the work of the devil, and what can we do about it?.
The human vision of humility is like the human vision of love: limited. Humility must exert its authority at all times and in all places.
But if we move from fear in general to the fear of Jesus Christ in the Garden of Olives, we will find silence more fitting than words. His passion...
One day in the 90s, we were walking down the street, we had just left the Hôtel des Saints-Pères, and Alvaro Mutis stopped abruptly. We were almost at the corner of the street...
When I started this blog, the idea of writing about liturgy came to me very quickly. Not to claim the status of a specialist...
“We are told that the air in the world is unbreathable. I agree. But the first Christians found every morning at their doorstep an atmosphere that…”.
"Totalitarian states, which alternately use lies and violence (lies to cover up violence and violence to silence those who...".
Modern theories, whose raison d'être is to obscure human nature and thus instill in humankind an excessive belief in its own person...
"I don't want to die, no I don't, nor do I want to; I want to live forever, forever; and live myself, this poor self, that I am and I...".
"When I think of all the books I have read," Yeats said, "all the wise words I have heard, all the anguish I have caused...".
"To declare that life is absurd is to say that it will never have meaning. To say that it is ambiguous is to decide that its meaning...".