Editorial

DEAR Friend, I think it’s quite incredible. In the face of the immense tragedy unfolding in Ukraine, one of the main things many countries have managed to think about, after humanitarian, economic and military aid to the assailed country, is their own rearmament...

WHEN I was in high school I had a classmate, Diego, who was very fond of butterflies...

DEAR friend, maybe you didn’t know, but Pope Francis is a great music lover. He is known to like Beethoven, Mozart and Bach – and even tango music from his native Argentina...

I’m sure you have wondered why we are always getting distressing news; is it possible that nothing good ever happens? I once posed this question to a famous journalist...

DEAR reader, for the majority of Italians Epiphany marks the end of the Christmas Season, even if in the liturgical calendar it actually ends on the Sunday celebrating the Baptism of the Lord, January 9th this year...

DEAR reader, among the many letters I received last month, there is one that struck me very much. It is a letter from which much pain emerges, but also a lot of love and, ultimately, a glimmer of hope...