From time to time, one revisits the life and legacy of a historical figure, attempting to discern how their traits and achievements might be brought into our own age. The question, however, lies in whether this effort is merely a way of rendering their memory more approachable, or whether, on the contrary, we encounter what Erasmus of Rotterdam once said of Thomas More: vir omnium horarum — “a man for all seasons.” Erasmus’s phrase, translated into English as such, later serv

With just over a month before the start of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, the vice-president of the...

Going up part of the Ticino river, leaving behind the Covered Bridge and its starlings that devour what the current leaves in its wake;...