A gift is something given freely, it is a relational good, that is, an act that is not owed, where the main good is not the object given but the relationship between the giver and the receiver.
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Today we are going through a new phase of alliance between the capitalist spirit and the warlike and illiberal spirit, which is leaving the democracies of the 20th century behind in favor of...
The Church is losing touch with the younger generations. To reconnect with young people, we need new narrative codes that proclaim the Gospel alongside scientific discoveries, the environment, the...
In reconciliations, before the blessing embrace there is a blessing gaze, which is an intimate embrace of the eyes. In that gaze began Jesus' forgiveness, and began Peter's resurrection.
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The pure and selfless joy of the elderly for the beauty of youth is a precious heritage of humanity. We are exhausting it, when instead we should simply cherish what little we have left.
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In societies of the past, and to some extent even today, women had a sixth sense, a special ability to read the “weak signals” of relationship crises in advance, and thus were able to prevent...
As adults, we can only enjoy life by slowing down, stopping the race, finding one place, two at most, and then sinking into this sea. It seems like a decrease, but in reality it is an increase in...
It is important to occasionally practice empathy with strangers who rush past us on the streets of our lives. It helps us reconcile ourselves with life and work, and develop a sense of...
Every religious experience has a consumer dimension. People do not go to church, and did not go in past centuries, solely to fulfill a moral obligation, out of fear of hell, or to avoid...
Prohibitive bills and dogs eating at the table with their owners: what happened to the restaurants of the small medieval historic towns of the Marche and Umbria? Reflections on a change of...
- The resources of our South
- The signs of the ‘new religion’
- The deceptions of leader-cracy
- The mother of the prodigal son
- The joy that cannot be bought
- We are something more than our happiness
- There is no price for salvation
- Freedom of devotion
- If leadership enters the school
- Let us go back to measuring capital
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