Paradise Lost by Sébastien de Courtois
There is a nostalgia for a lost paradise. We all feel it, more or less; it connects us to Original Sin and the Fall. This affliction torments...
Tag: intimacy
Prayer of the craftsman
12th-century monastic prayer: Teach me, Lord, to make good use of the time You give me for work… Teach me to combine haste and slowness….
Antigone, defiant and intimate (7/7. Love)
Part 7 and final part: Love. Antigone's desire is familial; she does not want to leave her brother unburied. Creon, on the other hand, desires to...
What does it mean to be out of touch with reality?
The most illuminating example concerning human nature is found in the New Testament when Peter and Jesus Christ speak together and Peter insists...
Antigone, defiant and intimate (6/7. The vocation)
So many stories about identity! The word appears neither in Greek epic nor in tragedy. Identity in Antigone's time is based on...
Antigone, defiant and intimate (3/7. Destiny)
Part 3: Destiny. Man descends from the tree. Man, like the tree, is defined as much by his roots as by his fruit. Man, like the tree...
News from Ernest Hello on fear and its perfections
Fear in general, therefore, possesses perfections that evil lacks. Perhaps the crucifixion was felt in a more terrible way in the Garden of Olives...
Antigone, defiant and intimate (2/7. The funeral)
Part 2: The Funeral — “My dearest Ismene. I came this morning to tell you that I've taken care of everything. I used the same funeral home for…”.
Antigone, defiant and intimate (1/7. The family)
Part 1: The Family From the very first reading of Antigone, an ambiguity arises in the reader's mind. Does Antigone embody the action or...
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...
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.
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...
The abandonment of Benedict XVI
“Eli, Eli lama sabachthani?” 1 When Benedict XVI signified, in a few simple words, that he was renouncing the office of pope, it was a trembling of...
The death of intimacy
Everywhere, on the internet, in newspapers, or on television, personal experience is displayed, exhibited, and presented as the gold standard. This indecent...