Sublime

Altissimi…” Receive his soul and present it in the presence of the Most High… The words buzzed in Lomeli’s head without meaning. It was happening more and more often. I cry out to You, God, but You do not answer. Some kind of spiritual insomnia, a kind of noisy interference, had crept over him during the past year, denying him that communion with t

Durante cinco siglos, los cristianos creyeron que la estricta enseñanza moral de su maestro les prohibía matar. Pero la fe católica no se alimenta únicamente de la enseñanza personal de Cristo. Se nutre también del Antiguo Testamento, de san Pablo y de los Padres de la Iglesia.

Árbenz nunca se consideró socialista y tomaba siempre con ironía los empeños de Fortuny de formarse intelectualmente leyendo a pensadores marxistas (libros que nunca encontraba en Guatemala y debía encargar a México, gastándose la plata que a duras penas le alcanzaba para comer) y de constituir en Guatemala, algún día, un partido comunista. Pero, l

Only weeks after sending his legislative package to Congress and a couple of days after expelling the SIL missionaries, Roldós warned all foreign interests, including but not limited to oil companies, that unless they implemented plans that would help Ecuador's people, they would be forced to leave his country. He delivered a major speech at the At

John Paul II held a different view. He refused to submit to the tyranny of the way things are. And because of that, he could ignite a revolution of conscience throughout Central and Eastern Europe that would eventually cut through the seemingly permanent and impermeable Berlin Wall.

Jesus is presented as the liberator of the poor, the sick, sinners, the socially and religiously marginalized.