Category Archives: Books

"I have no doubt that families with disabled children can be happy, but who, being able to choose, would not want a perfectly healthy child?" Recently, I was asked this question by a person in favor of assisted reproduction, if a couple risks giving birth to an ill child. I admit that if I had…

The "happiest" marriages would be those without children: to support this claim, an English survey, conducted by the Open University. According to the survey, carried out on a sample of 5,000 people, couples with children would tend to be more dissatisfied with their married life than those who do not. Therefore, to that sample of…

Returning from vacation is never easy. On one hand, we like to get back our daily routine, but the desire to stay at sea, in the mountains, or simply taking a break at home can linger for a long while after. Is there a way to not think too much at the end of the…

“We can say that the family is the unit of the state; that it is the cell that makes up the formation. [...] If we are not of those who begin by invoking a divine Trinity, we must none the less invoke a human Trinity; and see that triangle repeated everywhere in the pattern of…

Rethinking human sexuality is a very important task, especially in a cultural context such as ours, in which social and work transformations offer behavioral models that are characterized by a remarkable sexual indeterminacy. In Man or Woman. A difference that matters, Antonio Malo, professor of anthropology at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, tries…

"We are all born original, but many die as photocopies": so the young Carlo Acutis, who died of leukemia in 2006 and was proclaimed servant of God in 2016, explains how many young people, instead of making use of their own unique gifts, using them to serve others, they give into a consumerist mentality that…

"A hero is a simple man. Rather than being strong and powerful, he is someone who accomplishes an extraordinary and generous act of courage that involves or leads to self-conscious sacrifice in order to protect the good of others or the common good." Oscar Di Montigny It is a hot and humid morning, the type…

Original Title: Io e gli altri. Dall’identità alla relazione, Edusc, Roma 2010. Antonio Malo Pascal said that "all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber" (Pensées, n. 139). Pascal’s tough judgment is not simply a tirade against activism, but a defence of the need…

Maria d'Alessio. Rai Eri, Rome 2009 By Norberto González Gaitano “"He liked Dragon Ball so much that I had to buy him the entire series or else he would throw a tantrum. Then to make him behave, I told him that if he obeys me, I would buy him the action figures. I have no…