Bad people are all very similar. Good people, on the other hand, are each good in their own way. Years ago, I met two friends who practiced kindness as an ethical imperative and as a desire for understanding. Both were Christians, both were short, and both sometimes smoked those terrifying twisted cigars called Tuscans, but that's where the similarities ended. One was the journalist Josep Martí Gómez, who died in 2022. The other was the priest (and journalist) Josep Bigordà, who died this week at the age of 97. Meeting people like that brightens life a little. When I started working in The Catalan PostBy 1977, Martí and Bigordà were already prestigious figures. Martí Gómez had gained fame as an interviewer, alongside Josep Ramoneda, in the pages of Pleaseand wrote legal chronicles that extracted diamonds of humanity and beauty from every personal misery. In 1968, Bigordà had hosted the founding assembly of the Catalan Workers' Commissions in his modest parish of Sant Medir.