From Don Vito Vacca, fidei donum returned after several years in missionand, a reflection on consumerism and avoiding waste. Waste is another form of pollution: squandering food (how much waste in our countless restaurants!), water, electricity, or gas isn't just a waste, it becomes an attack on natural resources and an affront to the poverty of millions of people who are often exploited and deprived of these resources. Discarding still-decent clothes or useful objects for the obsession with new or branded items is harmful consumerism. Sometimes friends invite me to see their latest apartment renovation. And when...

A new column featuring the "Word of Mouth" messages of Father Nino Carta, a priest for many years in Brazil, now director of the CMD in Ozieri, Sardinia. Wishing the good of others, with a merciful, compassionate, and benevolent heart, is the best way to create a serious, profound, and personal relationship with everyone. The adjective benevolent in today's word of mouth is always conjugated with "blessing." I think I've emphasized a few times how the "benevolent" can penetrate the souls of others and thus discover their true good. Indeed, the benevolent is moved by a feeling of the heart...

In Iran, a girls' elementary school was hit during class in recent days, killing 165. On Saturday, February 28, 2026, as girls between the ages of 7 and 12 began their day of school in the classrooms of the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls' elementary school, an explosion shattered the silence of the school. A missile attack—in the midst of the first wave of bombing in the military campaign waged by the United States and Israel against Iran—destroyed much of the building, burying hundreds of innocent lives under rubble. The tragedy is one of the cruelest yet...

Saint Hadrian of Caesarea. A young Christian, Saint Hadrian went to Caesarea to support the imprisoned martyrs. Arrested during Diocletian's persecutions, he refused to sacrifice to idols, courageously facing martyrdom in the arena. His life testifies to his absolute fidelity to Christ and his heroic charity toward his brothers suffering for the faith. Read more Saint Lucius I. Elected Pope in 253, Saint Lucius I suffered exile under Emperor Gallus. A gentle and resolute pastor, he defended the unity of the Church and promoted mercy toward the faithful who had given up during the...

Psalm 94 1. Three invocations punctuate this psalm, like three movements. In the first: “Come, let us sing to the Lord,” there is an invitation to give a great round of applause to God, our rock of salvation. Let us learn to involve our physical being in prayer. How beautiful it would be if, when this Psalm is prayed in an assembly, the assembly, in obedience, gave a thunderous applause. The Psalms invite us to pray with our whole body. “Let all my bones say, ‘Who is like you, O Lord?’” (Ps 34:4). So the body expresses itself in prayer by kneeling (95:6), raising our hands (141:2), stretching our hands forward…