While they are growing up, the young need adults who can suggest principles and values to them. They feel in need of people who can teach by their ex… - Benedict XVI

Este principio –que sin silencio no se oye, no se escucha, no se recibe una palabra– es válido sobre todo para la oración personal, pero también para nuestras liturgias: para facilitar una escucha auténtica, las liturgias deben tener también momentos de silencio y de acogida no verbal.

Certainly, the contradiction of tensions and divisions between the followers of different religious traditions, sadly, cannot be denied. However, is it not also the case that often it is the ideological manipulation of religion, sometimes for political ends, that is the real catalyst for tension and division, and at times even violence in society?

Beauty is the radiance of truth, Thomas Aquinas once said, and one might add that the distortion of the beautiful is the self-irony of lost truth.