Jesus' parable retains all its enigmatic charge, it leaves the listener with the task of understanding it, it challenges him and forces him to questi… - Carlo Maria Martini

(About Saint Ignatius of Loyola) He said it himself, he sinned long and hard, to quote Luther; his conversion was total, his expiation very long, accompanied by a love of life and works, including the foundation of a Company that after 400 years is still one of the pillars of our Church.

Often the language used to talk about God is stunted and feeble, sometimes awkward, sometimes generic; one easily divides into verticalists and horizontalists, traditionalists and progressives, one makes judgements that, in the light of the Gospel, are at least inadequate.

Lo ha raccontato lui stesso, peccò a lungo e fortemente, per dirla con Lutero; la sua conversione fu totale, la sua espiazione lunghissima, accompagnata da un amore per la vita e per le opere tra le quali appunto la fondazione d'una Compagnia che dopo quattrocent'anni è ancora uno dei pilastri della nostra Chiesa.