Santa Isabel

La meta final de la vida humana es alcanzar la felicidad, vivir en "la Casa del Padre", que prometió Jesús a sus discípulos y, también, al Buen ladrón. Esa realidad misteriosa que todavía no hemos experimentado, es, sin embargo, algo que justifica los más íntimos deseos y esperanzas del corazón humano. Por eso, merece la pena meditar sobre el cielo y la vida que nos aguarda tras la muerte, siguiendo las enseñanzas de la Iglesia. José Miguel Pero-Sanz, nos ofrece en estas páginas unas consideraciones luminosas y prácticas para fomentar la esperanza del cielo y animarnos a...

Isidoro era un hombre trabajador, alegre, servicial y apostólico. El autor se ha entrevistado con numerosos testigos y trabajado personalmente en todos los lugares donde vivió.

The New York Times–bestselling author of The Keep tells the real and fictional origins of the mysterious man who battles criminals and the supernatural. In 1984, Repairman Jack debuted in F. Paul Wilson’s horror thriller The Tomb. Jack would go on to star in twenty-three novels, ten short stories, and a graphic novel. But how did the antithesis of James Bond and Jason Bourne get his start in the battle between good and evil? In this essay, Wilson lets his readers in on how his beloved hero came to be. Wilson begins his personal story after he scored a hit with The Keep, when he found his...

Fifty years ago Richard Bach made a promise to himself when he was a child: to write a book containing the sum of all he has learned and deliver it to his nine-year-old self, Dickie. He forgot his promise until one day. Whilst flying in his Delta Wing, he found Dickie, who expected him to fulfill his promise.

This is the story and background of how an orphan Chinese boy, with Gods blessing, created the world-renowned Jade Pagoda and its priceless companion collection and how it was lost to not only 1.4 billion Chinese but also to the people of the United States and the world. The centerpiece of this jade collection is the Jade Pagoda that took the blood and sweat of 150 Chinese jade artisans over ten years to complete. It was carved from the largest jadeite boulder ever mined from a quarry in Northern Burma (Myanmar). These jade workers labored between 1922 and 1933 by hand-and-foot power, using...

La biografía de Mark Reinhard Mohn, fundador de Bertelsmann, en su centenario. Reinhard Mohn (1921-2009) está considerado como uno de los empresarios europeos de medios de comunicación más importantes del siglo XX. Tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial, se hizo cargo del grupo editorial Bertelsmann y en las décadas siguientes marcó el rumbo para que la compañía se convirtiera en un grupo internacional de medios de comunicación. Desde la fundación del Círculo de Lectores de Bertelsmann en 1950 y su expansión internacional, hasta la compra de RTL o del grupo estadounidense Random House, su ...