Schweizer turns an apparently insignificant experience — waiting — into an opportunity to reflect on what it really means to live in time. In a society that values speed, productivity, and immediate gratification, the author focuses on that seemingly “wasted” time during which we cannot make things happen whenever we want.
From a...
Debreczeni (1905–1978) was a prominent Hungarian writer and journalist who spent most of his life in Yugoslavia. The book, halfway between memoir and chronicle, begins with his arrival at Auschwitz in 1944, when he was 39 years old. “From then on, everything became a kind of intermittent and oppressive dream... we saw beings dressed in carnival...
Newman has the gift of suggesting ideas of lasting value and full relevance to the modern world, in the context of questions that enriched the intellectual and doctrinal debate of his time. Letter to the Duke of Norfolk, written to refute the offensive criticisms levelled by the politician Gladstone against Catholics, is now considered one of...
Magnifica Humanitas is the first encyclical of Pope Leo XIV. In it, he reflects on the dignity of the human person, created by God and called to live in truth, love, and fraternity. The Pope affirms that every person possesses a unique and inviolable value that must be respected in all circumstances.
The encyclical addresses some of the...
Published in 1847 under the male pseudonym Currer Bell, Jane Eyre is a novel that blends several genres: a love story, a Gothic novel and, above all, a profound exploration of dignity and inner freedom. Jane is an orphaned girl, despised by her family, who grows up in the harsh Lowood boarding school and, as a young woman, becomes a governess...
A novel published in 1873, one of the most notable works by Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov (1831–1895), an author admired by Maxim Gorky, Walter Benjamin, and Thomas Mann. During a boat trip on Lake Ladoga, the protagonist tells the other passengers about his incredible life, full of adventures and mishaps, some of them extraordinary, all very well...
Mary Chubb (1903–2003) was an English writer and archaeologist. The book is a chronicle of an archaeological campaign funded by the Egypt Exploration Society, which took place between November 1930 and February 1931 at Tell el-Amarna, the site of the abandoned capital of the pharaoh Akhenaten.
The narrative begins with the journey from...
“The American Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, 69, Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops of the Holy See, is the new Pope, taking the name Leo XIV. Elected by the cardinals on the fourth ballot of the conclave, he is now the 267th successor of Saint Peter.”
Who is Leo XIV? What message will he bring to the world? Will he be able to...
The Spiritual Combat by Lorenzo Scupoli has served as a sure guide for generations of saints, including Francis de Sales and Jane de Chantal along with John Henry Newman. Fr. Jonathan Robinson aims to introduce the central teachings of this spiritual classic to 21st-century readers, while responding to contemporary criticisms of...
This book is related to From Christendom to Apostolic Mission, which also examines the transition from Christendom to a return to the apostolic origins in the current situation of the world and the Church, especially in the West.
In this book, the author analyzes...