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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...

 "During the last few months, my work has taken me to the Amazon in Brazil and Lake Turkana in Kenya, seeking to portray the human condition with my camera, beyond race, religion or beliefs. First and foremost, the people," says photojournalist Ismael Martínez. Una chica recibe clases particulares en Abidjan (Costa de Marfil). Harambee Africa International. I am a photojournalist. I look for a story behind every shot, a person behind the story and a hope behind life. I try to photographically portray the human condition in Brazil, Spain or Kenya. For 80 percent of humanity, life is a lottery where God seems to have distributed the tickets among the winners themselves? Faced with such a panorama, the question can be quite simple: what would have happened if I (Andalusian) had been born fifteen kilometres down the Strait of Gibraltar in a different religion and culture? How and to what extent does a country and a family influence us? Ismael, author of the report and photojourna...

by Cesar Munoz   Music is not an art and believe me, when we clarify this, many controversies will end. Music is not an art, music is a language and with that language we can make works of art, but we can also make things that are not art or things that are artistically irrelevant even though they are still music. What can be called art? We enter into another controversy that is important to define. Obviously this is something very subjective and that anyone who wants or needs to call themselves an "artist" will accommodate it to their convenience. But I think there are certain fundamental things that we could all agree on. When is music considered a true work of art? Let's start a bit by strengthening this idea that music is a language and that not necessarily anything that is done with that language has to be considered a work of art. What is a language? A language is a system by which the human being communicates. There is written language, body language, spoken la...

 por  Carlos Perona Calvete "Tolkien entiende la creatividad como el hecho de que Dios nos da las cosas a partir de las cuales crear. La arcilla, las hojas, las palabras, incluso el lenguaje. Y nosotros las utilizamos para crear cosas ordenándolas en nuevas combinaciones. Pero en cierto sentido, todas esas combinaciones son posibilidades ya presentes en la mente de Dios. Y Tolkien creía que seguiríamos haciéndolo en el Cielo."—Alison Milbank J.R.R. Tolkien y G.K. Chesterton, dos grandes defensores del género fantástico moderno, entendían la creación literaria, y el arte en general, como expresión de algún modo de la creatividad de Dios en el mundo. Alison Milbank ha escrito el libro Chesterton and Tolkien as Theologians (Chesterton y Tolkien como teólogos), en el que explora la obra de estas figuras elevadas. En esta entrevista, ahondamos en cómo el arte bello, y en concreto las grandes obras de ficción, pueden despertar en nosotros el sentido del misterio de la belleza, ha...

 by LARGO ¿Es usted productor o director de cine e intenta presentar su próximo proyecto a una productora o distribuidora? Si ya lo has hecho antes, sabrás que la presentación de una película es una de las partes más difíciles del negocio. Presentar una película de cualquier tipo no sólo es una experiencia desalentadora, sino que a menudo implica intentar presentar el proyecto a personas que no conoces. Aunque conozcas los puntos fuertes de tu proyecto y, sin duda, te apasione su potencial, es muy difícil saber qué buscan las personas a las que te diriges. A menudo, basta una sola respuesta poco apasionada, o no responder a la pregunta de forma exhaustiva, para que la reunión fracase. Pregunte a cualquier productor y le contará un sinfín de historias de lanzamientos fallidos en los que, o bien se equivocaron, o bien les tocó el productor o distribuidor del infierno. El problema de la presentación de una película es que se basa en gran medida en abstracciones, al menos por lo que re...

  a childhood  compass Può perdere il suo futuro nel passato, può spendere il suo tempo presente nel futuro. Può sempre esserci un po' di confusione sulle direzioni della vita o sulle decisioni da prendere. Ma è ovvio che ognuno sceglie la vita, preferisce vivere. Ma è importante discernere quale tipo di vita è meglio vivere. Guardate in alto verso i vostri antenati, guardate indietro alle storie di saggezza. Guardate al prossimo amico che pensa in pace, al familiare vicino che parla con calma. Possiamo perdere molto tempo a discutere dell'azzurro del cielo o delle dimensioni dell'infinito. Possiamo anche perderci sulla terra cercando di trovare la strada migliore per il cielo. Scrutando il senso della vita invece di vivere con uno scopo. Ma nel "dibattito sul cielo blu" almeno guarderemo tutti in alto. Con i piedi ben saldi a terra. E cercando di riconoscere il percorso della "via migliore" per continuare ad andare avanti, per andare avanti, per rimaner...

by Fernando Cruz Quintana Commemorative poster for  Memories of a Mexican (1950) , prepared for the celebrations of the Bicentennial of Independence and the Centennial of the Revolution in 2010.  The photographs above show, on the left, Salvador Toscano, and on the right, his daughter Carmen. Few cinematographic works can succinctly relate, in just a few hours, fifty years of national history. Memorias de un mexicano/Memories of a Mexican (Carmen Toscano, 1950) is probably the best example of a film that, through documentary images, reconstructs half a century of a country's past. "The best Mexican film" In 1950, one of the greatest films in the history of Mexican cinema (the adjective refers both to its artistic magnificence and the all-encompassing nature of its story), Memoirs of a Mexican , was presented in what was a true media phenomenon at the time. At the premiere, artists, politicians and intellectuals alike gathered: José Vasconcelos, Vicente Lombardo Toledano...