Foco - Omnes

A Catholic perspective on current events

Universal human rights?

Where are the supposedly universal human rights? It is clear that these rights are not equal for all. Their respect is the condition for the social and economic development of a country.

Jaime Gutiérrez Villanueva

A priest in a poor area of Argentina without canonists

Omnes

"The panorama that opens up is that of the clear and explicit proclamation of Jesus Christ."

The reality of a secularized society has given rise to a set of catechetical materials to deepen the baptismal vocation and to receive the first Eucharist coordinated by the priests José Antonio Abad and Pedro de la Herrán.

Maria Jose Atienza

Bishop José Mazuelos: "The reification of life only brings suffering".

José Mazuelos, Bishop of the Canary Islands and president of the Episcopal Subcommission on the Family and Defense of Life, on topics such as the care of the most vulnerable, the euthanasia law or the Living Will proposed by the EEC.

Rafael Miner

"The euthanasia law almost makes the objecting physician look like an offender."

Oncologist Manuel González Barón, palliative physician Ángel José Sastre and professor María José Valero criticized the new law regulating euthanasia at Villanueva University. Valero pointed out that the law almost makes the objector seem "an offender", as if he were "a persecuted hero" who must be "registered".

Rafael Miner

Love always wins

Bleak House, Dickens' novel, is a good example of how in married life you have to "learn to lose": to give in, to forgive, to give your all, even if it is not what "sells" in the market.