Editorial

DEAR friends, mistletoe has become a very popular Christmas decoration. Here in Italy, for example, people give charming bunches of mistletoe twigs with a big red bow to family and friends to wish them a New Year full of peace, serenity and health...

DEAR friends, I have a simple short story that might be particularly appropriate for this month. A very sick man turned to his doctor as he was leaving the room after an examination, and said, “Doctor, I’m afraid of dying. Tell me what the afterlife is like.”

DEAR friend, Saint Francis, a symbol of love for peace, for all the gifts of creation and for the simple life, has over time become a true reference point for believers and non-believers alike...

DEAR friends, it has been more than six months since Moscow’s troops crossed the border and began what the Kremlin leadership insists on calling a “special military operation”...

DEAR friend, the mainstream media is sadly feeding us a daily diet of terrible images of death and destruction. These are images which perhaps many of us were not used to seeing, but which have unfortunately always been common in many countries...

BRUNO, a young Italian man who has lived in London for several years, is a great lover of charity shops, or thrift shops or whatever you want to call those shops that sell things that people have given them in order to raise funds for charitable purposes...