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Aixa de la Cruz and our idolatries

Aixa de la Cruz defines her generation as 'godless', seeking in work, consumption and relationships that which only the divine can fill, and revealing how the lack of a spiritual horizon leads us to confuse false altars with true transcendence.

Andrés Cárdenas Matute

21 Sep 2025
The madman of God

God's madman at the end of the world

"El loco de Dios en el fin del mundo" is a work by Javier Cercas, in which he accompanies Pope Francis on a trip to Mongolia to seek answers for his believing mother. Published in early 2025, it has been described as an "existential thriller" that blends spiritual reflection, travelogue and in-depth portrait of the Pontiff.

Andrés Cárdenas Matute

11 Jun 2025

Francisco and our work as readers

The need to discover the sources, to go to them, to renounce the morbidity of ecclesial politics, to have reliable intermediaries: these are all skills that serve us even for life beyond the religious sphere, especially in times of artificial intelligence.

Andrés Cárdenas Matute

16 May 2025
Pope Francis

A "Francis option" ten years into his pontificate

In this reading recommendation, Andrés Cárdenas Matute talks to us about the book Francesco's Optionby Armando Matteo, currently available only in Italian from the San Paolo Publishing House.

Andrés Cárdenas Matute

22 Apr 2023
To the Church

A "Catholic wager" from sociology

Chiara Giaccardi and Mauro Magatti see in the ideas of Benedict XVI and Francis a continuity that can bring Catholicism back into contact with a changing reality. This is what they expose in the book "The Catholic Bet", published in 2019 with considerable resonance.

Andrés Cárdenas Matute

9 Dec 2022