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       Daily Maverick                                         Coronavirus source found in pangolin meat by: Eloy Roy  Every second that the good Lord brings, our large industry produces tons of greenhouse gases. The world has a fever, a dry cough and serious breathing problems ... It is intoxicated. Cancer is in our lunch boxes. Fish are born with two heads, birds with two beaks and we die like flies. Like good drunkards, we got used to these things. We don't make a big deal out of it. It is not terribly serious, we tell ourselves. These are the side effects of a thriving economy ... What is needed is to stimulate growth even more. With exponential growth, all problems will be solved. It will be the end of poverty. What a blessing!   But the nasty coronavirus has arrived. All borders are closed, the Stock Exchange is nose diving, the price...

1- ON THE TRESHOLD OF THE STABLE   Hello, God! Come in! No, no, you don't bother at all. In fact, you don't take up much space.. . I now understand why nowadays many people don't pay much attention to you ... You are so small! I was waiting for you on the clouds of the sky and here you appear in a stable. I was figuring you shining like the sun but you are coming as a little refugee child. I'm a little surprised, but you're welcome. I wanted to be nice   by imagining you very tall and very above us, but I see that your greatness consists in making you the smallest of us. Perhaps you want to tell us that a big person is not someone who has stopped being small, but a little one who simply has grown up. And that there is no full life, no future, therefore no "salvation" without the   "little one" in you and the "little ones" around the world. The "little one" in you is the innermost and most secret par...

In a land of mountains and sheep that I loved, we had a Tree of Life. In the off-season, when everything seemed to be over, we took a dry branch, decorated it with small balls of colored wool, and said, "They represent the fruits we will reap tomorrow. Because again the Earth will green   and life will flourish again. It was our Christmas Tree, it was our tree of hope. In December, in a cold country like Canada, we cut a tree and say, "Nothing grows. Winter is back, life is gone ... But you, cut fir, we bring you home and we dress you with shiny balls and garlands of gold. With you we defeat death. We affirm that nothing is finished ... Already we see shining at the end of your branches new fruits. They are beautiful as stars. Life was buried today and she fell asleep, but tomorrow she will come back! "                                    Yes, life will reappear as surely a...

                                                                                    The measured people, the ones who see themselves as the norm of what is wise and civilized, do not like Greta: too emotional, too apocalyptic, even bordering on fanaticism.   According to them, she should shut up and go back to school.   Two millennia before, other "politically correct" people wanted to silence John the Baptist because, like Greta and many others, he saw fire and shouted: "Fire! Fire!"   Later, for similar reasons, they also tried to close their mouths to Jesus and his followers. But it was Jesus who close their mouths answering them in a heartbeat: "If these people keep quiet, the very stones will cry out!" (Luke 19:40). Greta's speech at the UN: In...

As I meditated on the resurrection of Lazarus in the gospel of John 11:1-44, it came to my mind that even RELIGION can be a killing machine. As a system, indeed, Religion is a bit like an iron box that too often strangles God and shrinks him rather than revealing him.   Gospel is quite the opposite: it open boxes, it awakens, resurrects, "reveals" (i.e. "removes the veil"); it frees from frames, it opens paths, brings to light what is hidden; it takes you out of the grave. Lazarus was a very good boy and a great friend of Jesus, but he lived sunken  since ever in things of religion. He did not have a personal life. He was «dead to the world». For him, the world smelled bad. For the world, however, he was the one who did not smell good ...  Upon learning that Lazarus' situation had reached a critical point, Jesus was perturbed by that. He approached the place where his friend had locked himself up like in a tomb, and shouted to him, "Lazarus, g...

Duty of memory  « You hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets end decorate the monuments of the holy men. You say: had we lived in the time of our fathers, we would not have joined them in the blood of the prophets... And now, finish off what your fathers began!» (Matthew 23, 29-32) Fotos; Word Press Four witnesses of the Gospel have just been beatified in Argentina. They are Enrique Angelelli, Carlos Murias and Wenceslao Pedernera. The three were Argentines; the first was a bishop, the second was a Franciscan friar, the third was a committed lay peasant. Their companion, Gabriel Longueville, a French missionary priest, was also beatified with them.  The four men lived in La Rioja, an impoverished province in the hinterland, where, in 1976, waited for them a brutal end.   Who would've believed that? Forty years ago, a merciless military dictatorship takes place in Argentina. Many bishops, priests and catholic faithful welcome that dictatorship as...

  Photo Internet Running away from Honduras towards the USA For more than 60 years, we, the missionaries of the SME, have walked along with the people of Honduras. With a straw hat on our heads and a machete in our hands, we have walked at their side, riding on mules, by foot, by motorcycle, by jeep…In the oppressive heat, in spite of malaria, the amoeba, and other details, we have overcome the mountains, opened roads, built schools, dug water wells .  Through radio and other means, we have transmitted basic knowledge that allowed to shake fear, resignation, the feeling of helplessness. From the religious faith of that beloved people, a sincere faith but often paralyzing, we have made a motor of awakening, of hope and of dynamism so as to walk together towards a better world. We worked tirelessly at the formation of thousands of humble agents of social and ecclesial transformation. Some of us were at the heart of a movement that led a good number of families grap...