Novena for France
What a beautiful initiative! A novena for France. A novena to express our love for the Blessed Virgin and ask her to watch over us with all the saints...
Category: Modern World
A day at the job center in 2014
An edifying story I heard this week… A far cry from the grandstanding of our leaders on television. One day….
The Humanity of Cheyenne Carron — Reflections on the film The Apostle
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...
In memoriam Alvaro Mutis
It was a year ago. Alvaro Mutis passed away. This great Colombian writer deserves to be read and reread. This brilliant monarchist project...
From tradition…
“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…”.
To which saints should we pray?
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?.
News about humility
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.
Ernest Hello's news on Fear
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...
Letter to my friend Alvaro Mutis
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...
Christian Testimony – 2
When I started this blog, the idea of writing about liturgy came to me very quickly. Not to claim the status of a specialist...
In the polluted air of our societies
“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…”.
On totalitarian states
"Totalitarian states, which alternately use lies and violence (lies to cover up violence and violence to silence those who...".
Hannah Arendt on human life
Modern theories, whose raison d'être is to obscure human nature and thus instill in humankind an excessive belief in its own person...
Unamuno on human life
"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...".