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  There is no doubt that among the major themes in Chesterton's inspiration and writings, love and family, as well as women and marriage, are particularly noteworthy. In 1990, Alvaro Silva published Brave New Family in San Francisco, a collection of G.K.'s essays on these subjects, which was published in Spanish in 1993 by Rialp under the title El Amor o la fuerza del sino (Love or the Force of Fate) and reissued in 2017 by Espuela de Plata. I would like to highlight the careful introduction he makes to this collection of essays, which reflects his admiration for the English writer and is in itself a fascinating incentive to approach Chesterton's work. I have taken the liberty of posting it on the blog without having been able to locate Mr. Alvaro, from whom I hope to receive his benevolence, and I hope that this entry will contribute to the dissemination of his book and the extensive and exciting work of G.K. Chesterton. David Fernández   Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-193...

"Georg Friedrich Händel's Messiah, a glorious oratorio that hides a story that deserves to be told. by  Alejandro Sada Every time Christmas time approaches, thousands of people around the world listen once again to the magnificent arias and choruses that make up the most celebrated work of sacred music of all time: Georg Friedrich Handel's Messiah . Underneath this glorious oratorio lies a story that deserves to be told. The great writer Stefan Zweig even considered it to be one of the highlights of human history, one of those moments that set a new course for the world. On 13 April 1737, Händel , exhausted, ill and overburdened with debts, collapsed from an attack of cerebral palsy that caused a stroke on the right side of his body. His condition is so pitiful that the doctor says: "Perhaps we can keep the man. The musician we have lost. However, with the strength of an irrepressible spirit, the composer travels to the hot baths of Aachen, where after six weeks he is...

Christian faith is a great yes to reason at its various levels. In university life, this translates in the first place into a yes to reason as a legitimate human faculty. by Alejandro Sada Laurentius de voltina Does it make sense that confessional universities such as these continue to exist in the 21st century? In order to outline an answer to this question, it is necessary to look at the way in which faith and reason are related. In fact, it was precisely this relationship that led to the development of universities in the Middle Ages. Recently, the great theologian Joseph Ratzinger reminded us that "the university was born because faith considered the search for truth possible and impelled this search in such a way that it subsequently required the extension of its scope to all fields of human knowledge." That is, at the core of Christianity was the conviction that faith can and must be thought and take root in human rationality. It was this conviction that prompted the cr...