Oriol Jara (Barcelona, ​​1980) is a screenwriter and television director. He has been, among other things, assistant director of the program Buenafuente, screenwriter of Poland and currently directs The jungle, the afternoon program on TV3. But Jara is also a Christian activist. And, with the book Why I believe in God, begins a new collection of Destiny of Thought in which various people answer the question posed in the book's title: why do they believe in God?

I am an atheist. And, while remaining so, I now find myself on the side of the Christians. Our enemy is strong: it relies, perhaps without much awareness of it, on paganism, on nature itself, and on the philosophy that followed Friedrich Nietzsche. Perhaps those of us on the Christian side don't even know we are Christians. I'm not talking, of course, about religion, but about a clash between worldviews that erupted in the 20th century and is characterizing the 21st.

DomainTom Holland's book is probably the best history of Christianity published to date. Aside from revealing the immense global influence of Christian cultural values, beyond the religious sphere, the reader may reach the last page with the feeling that there is nothing new under the sun. If we limit ourselves to the realm of the Catholic, or universal, Church, it is evident that it has never ceased to revolve around two fundamental issues: poverty and purity. Now, as the world plunges into a dizzying crisis, both issues are highly topical. And they demand clear positions. The question of priestly purity or impurity has resurfaced in recent decades, with the continuous denunciations of abuse and rape by members of the clergy. And the Doctors of the Church have continued to refer to an idea formulated in the fourth century to oppose the Donatists.

Pope Francis briefly reappeared before the faithful this Sunday to impart his blessing. urbi et orbi, in Rome and around the world. From the central gallery of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, in front of more than 35,000 people, the Pontiff delivered his blessing in a whisper and wished everyone a happy Easter.

Forgiveness, compassion, respect for others, work ethic, humility, love... These are values that, whether we like it or not, have permeated us for centuries. And that, despite the death of God and the triumph of depersonalized AI, refuse to disappear. Nostalgia for faith? No. Perhaps nostalgia for the good life. President Salvador Illa, like a leftist hill, shamelessly proclaims these values. President Donald Trump, in practice, loudly denies them every day. By action or omission, both remind us of this undercurrent of Western history that draws on the classical Greco-Roman world and the redeeming figure of Jesus. Christian humanism: the person, with their contradictions and weaknesses, at the center.

After surprising everyone last August by announcing that he was resigning as bishop of Solsona "for strictly personal reasons", Xavier Novell has already requested the necessary documentation to get married in a registry office with his partner, as reported today by the newspaper El Mundo. Novell, who has not yet given official explanations of the reasons for his resignation or his new personal situation, presented a request to get married at the Civil Registry of Súria (Bages) on October 7, according to an edict signed by the justice of the peace, Jaume Bransuela Alsina.