Angela Maria Tomé

It is known that sunflowers follow the sun like the hands of a clock: during the day, their corolla turns towards the light and, at night, it “droops” in the opposite direction to await its rising again the next morning. But these cycles only occur during the flowers’ “infancy” and …

Among the lugubrious events of the French Revolution, there is no doubt that the beheading of more than forty thousand victims, together with the unspeakable massacre of three hundred thousand Vendeans, constitute a less-than-prestigious backdrop for those who claimed to be fighting in the name of liberty, equality and fraternity. …

There is a poem in Brazilian literature by Vicente de Carvalho, Velho Tema I, which discusses the search for happiness in this life. After considering the different forms of bitterness and failure that fill the lives of all men, the poet finally ponders that happiness “we do not attain / …

For some decades now the age-old habit of writing letters has been disappearing. Since ancient times, written on papyrus or parchment and even on clay or stone tablets, these means of communication have always reflected the customs, education and mentality of the peoples. The millennia-old stone stelae, tablets on which …

An article on Churchill in a Catholic magazine? – the reader may wonder upon opening these pages. Indeed, what is it that prompts us to write about the “old lion”? A virtue little practised in our days and which opens veritable treasures to us: admiration. And as the good is …

The Word of God has irresistible power. It is the most powerful weapon that exists; a weapon of conquest and of transformation, far more powerful than an atomic bomb! A well prepared sacred preacher, who transmits the revealed word, has in his hands a true treasure of influence and of …