Corazón heroico

Dónde podemos encontrar hoy formas responsables de apocalíptica? Este artículo reflexiona sobre esta cuestión desde el contexto de Sudáfrica y con referencia al discurso cristiano contemporáneo sobre el cambio climático. Postula un conjunto de criterios que proceden, genéricamente, de las raíces bíblicas del cristianismo, con el objetivo de evaluar las formas contemporáneas de apocalíptica. Ofrece, a continuación, una doble propuesta constructiva, a saber, que el discurso cristiano sobre el cambio climático en África es un contexto apropiado para buscar formas contemporáneas...

Translated by Kieran Kavanaugh, OCD, and Otilio Rodriguez, OCD. Contains Book of Her Foundations and Minor Works. In 1573, while staying in Salamanca to assist her nuns in the task of establishing one of her seventeen monasteries, Teresa began composing the story of their foundation. The Book of Her Foundations comprises the major portion of Volume Three. This book not only tells the story of the establishment of her monasteries but, characteristic of Teresa, digresses into counsels on prayer, love, melancholy, virtuous living and dying, plus other teachings of the Mother Foundress. This book ...

Father Walter Ciszek, S.J., author of the best-selling He Leadeth Me, tells here the gripping, astounding story of his twenty-three years in Russian prison camps in Siberia, how he was falsely imprisoned as an "American spy", the incredible rigors of daily life as a prisoner, and his extraordinary faith in God and commitment to his priestly vows and vocation. He said Mass under cover, in constant danger of death. He heard confession of hundreds who could have betrayed him; he aided spiritually many who could have gained by exposing him. This is a remarkable story of personal experience. It...

Uno de los más elocuentes y respetados autores en el campo de la religión ofrece un oportuno manifiesto sobre la necesidad urgente de restaurar el papel de la religión como fuerza humanizadora para los individuos y la sociedad. Smith aporta una convincente crítica histórica y social, además de una profunda esperanza en la condición espiritual de la humanidad.