By John Paul Pezzi, Mccj
By John Paul Pezzi, Mccj
By John Paul Pezzi, Mccj
By John Paul Pezzi, Mccj
With the liberation of Libya come less happy reports from Amnesty and Physicians for Human Rights of rebels slaughtering scores of black Africans. Arab racism toward black Africans is commonplace, even if it remains a taboo subject.
It was in 1942 and 1943 that Simone Weil, in the midst of the tragedy of war and shortly before losing her life, devoted all her energies to envisioning a constituent assembly for Europe. A year [...]
Like the one who leaves Paris for the desert and smiles from afar at solitude; like the traveller who awaits with eager heart the long days by the sea; like the monk who lovingly contemplates the [...]
From the hills of Recanati, on a summer evening in 1819, a remarkable young man, Giacomo Leopardi, reflected on this mystery. How can an obstacle become an opening? How can what limits become [...]
According to Trapiello, these sects have “wrapped themselves in a kind of ideological packaging,” which is nothing more than “a feeling, an impulse, an intuition. Religions respond [...]
He sent for this slave girl to see what made her so exceptional. She stood before him with a dignity he had never seen in other slaves.
He asked her, ‘Why is your price so high, young woman? [...]
Those are words worth contemplating, on all sides of the political and religious divide today. We live in a time of bitter division. From our government offices down to our kitchen tables there are [...]
Mentoring, yoga, coaching, self-help texts (now called ‘inspirational books’), mindfulness, meditation, jogging... The proposals for improving our quality of life are so numerous that [...]
Believing is either hospitable or it is not believing. Hospitality is structurally part of believing. Hosting others in oneself is the very essence of believing in God, not a more or less necessary [...]
First: Know the 10 Commandments to fail (Donald R. Keough). So, leave these behaviours
Stop taking risks.
Be inflexible.
Seek to isolate yourself.
Convince yourself of being infallible. [...]
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