Wisława Szymborska was right when she declaimed that “the world is never ready for the birth of a child”. This always applies, and even more so, if the child who is born is also the creator of this never-ready world, if this child who cries because of the cold in the damp cave of Bethlehem … Read more
La conversion «n’est jamais une affaire réglée», parce que «devant l’Evangile, nous sommes toujours comme des enfants qui ont besoin d’apprendre». C’est ce qu’a rappelé le Pape François aux membres de la Curie romaine, à l’occasion de l’audience annuelle pour les vœux de Noël, qui s’est tenue le jeudi 22 décembre, dans la salle des … Read more
In Ukraine as in Syria, in the Holy Land as in Lebanon and throughout the Middle East, in the Sahel as in Yemen, in Burma as in Iran or in Haiti, the world “is experiencing a serious shortage of peace”. This was emphasized by Pope Francis in the traditional Urbi et Orbi message delivered at … Read more
“Let us pray to our father and brother” to “obtain for us ‘the smile of the soul,’ transparent, which does not deceive”, asking, “with his words, what he used to ask: ‘Lord, take me as I am, with my faults, with my shortcomings, but make me become as you wish me to be”. This is … Read more