And had you watched Ahab’s face that night, you would have thought that in him also two different things were warring. While his one live leg made lively echoes along the deck, every stroke of his dead limb sounded like a coffin-tap. On life and death this old man walked.

Ch. 51, The Spirit-Spout

“His lance! aye, the keenest and the surest that out of all our isle! Oh! he ain't Captain Bildad; no, and he ain't Captain Peleg; HE'S AHAB, boy; and Ahab of old, thou knowest, was a crowned king!”
"And a very vile one. When that wicked king was slain, the dogs, did they not lick his blood?”

What's all this fuss I have been making about, thought I to myself—the man's a human being just as I am: he has just as much reason to fear me, as I have to be afraid of him. Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

H. Melville, Moby Dick, Ch. 3, The Spouter-Inn.

And you may well prefer abstention
but I feel compelled to mention
You’d do well to pay attention
when the boys are on parade.

#5Sì

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Il 5 maggio usciva Fine dell’era costantiniana. Sarà la storia (e lo Spirito) a mostrarci se gli autori qui trattati avevano ragione: quell’epoca è conclusa, e come ha detto spesso Francesco la malinconia del passato degli “indietristi” non deve ingannare: la chiesa vada avanti, che sia in cammino!

Leggendo rapporti dell'Organizzazione internazionale per la migrazione.
Buona festa della Liberazione, buon 25 aprile!
#25aprilesempre #liberazione #25Aprile

preso dalla fine del mondo

The Second Vatican Council
60 Years After its End

My talk: The “Spirit” of Paris. Historical-Theological Ferments in the Pre-Conciliar Period

Rileggersi

ReFinance EuroResearch

Meanwhile in Berlin…

EU-Hope

An attempt to reconstruct the transformation that the concept of “charity” has undergone from the beginning of the last century to the Magisterium of Pope Francis, passing through the crucial role played by the Second Vatican Council.

(in italian)

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Relief of a woman holding the liver of a sacrificial victim, probably Diotima of Mantineia, in pentelic marble.
National Archaeological Museum of Athens ≈ 420 BC