BLOG OF ELOY ROY - EVERYBODY GOES TO HEAVEN

I cannot call myself a human and remain neutral in a world where so many human beings are neglected, rejected, oppressed, and ignored. So, I must decide on which side I am. I am on the side of the little ones against all those who abuse them. I am on the side of greatness and dignity of each human being here on earth, against the injustice of any kind, be it of the right or of the left, which creates poverty, cultivates it and multiplies it. My country is justice, in solidarity with all those who are in love with it, beyond any banner and any party, beyond any system and any ideology, beyond any religion and any absence of religion. I am not with that official and so-called democratic justice which those who have the dough are, on a daily basis, trafficking with, but with that justice which gives to those who have nothing the same rights and the same power than those who have everything.  I am with that justice which recogn...

Jesus describes for us a world like being a field that he himself has sowed with good seed.  But the hand of an enemy succeeded also to sow in it a detestable weed called «chaff». It looks like a wheat plant, but its seeds are poisonous and cause giddiness like alcohol intoxication.         « The good seed, explains Jesus, are the children of the Kingdom; the chaff are the supporters of the Evil One » (Matt. 13:38).             It is now clear that in the world, according to Jesus, there are, on one side, the good people, and on the other side, the evil people, on one side, the cowboys who have all the rights, and on the other side, the Indians who are entirely to blame. The world would be some kind of an old western movie.           Still, knowing Jesus a little, we know very well that in his head things are far from being so...

My hope, in the desert The world does not lack hope, but the hope of some is not always that of the others. For example, the hope of the Israelis is not the same as the hope of the Palestinians, the hope of the youth is not that of the elders, and the hope of the poor is light years away from the hope of the rich.       In the Church, things are not much different. The hope of the Lefebvre followers, to name only one, does not at all coincide with mine. The hope of those who try to articulate the Gospel with the values of the modern world is surely not the one of an aging pope who has a hard time to hide his antipathy for a world that is not his. In the past, in the Church, hope was to go to heaven. Even if we were quibbling with one another about the ways of going there, everybody agreed on that. But would that be only what there is about Christian hope?     Christian hope    What was the hope of ...

The condor is the largest bird in the world. Hi s motherland is in the Andes of South America. One day, a woman found a condor’s egg in the mountain. She brought it down to her house and put it under a hen that was nesting on a new brood. Not long after, a little condor was hatched out at the same time as the hen's own chickens. The mother loved him as much as her other children, and she brought him up as a chicken. The little condor grew like his brothers and sisters, clucking and cackling. He scratched in the earth for worms and seeds. He would flap his wings now and then, and sometimes take a few steps in the air without really managing to fly. One day, now well grown up, he saw a large bird hovering gracefully and majestically, high up in the sky. As he watched, his heart started throbbing. His body was electrified. He felt a power within him, urging him to run to the highest place and launch himself into the air. There he would spread his wings and fly like tha...

  Foreword At the time when the Quebequers of French descent were very Catholic, Saint John the Baptizer, followed by his sheep, was chosen as their patron saint. But, after the « quiet revolution » of the 60s, the Baptizer and his sheep were literally wiped off the face of the earth. And rightly so.   It was because those two great symbols of the Christian world, John the Baptizer and the Lamb, had become purely sentimental images, good only for the consumption of the devout people and for the folk show, without any serious connection with the political, economic, social and cultural situation suffered by the people since the Conquest of 1759 by the British. According to the spirit of Jesus, the saints, the Church and her sacred signs, and also the Gospel itself, when we empty them of their prophetic content, « they are no longer good for anything but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot. »           ...