Announcing the Feast

Father Walter Ciszek, S.J., author of the best-selling He Leadeth Me, tells here the gripping, astounding story of his twenty-three years in Russian prison camps in Siberia, how he was falsely imprisoned as an "American spy", the incredible rigors of daily life as a prisoner, and his extraordinary faith in God and commitment to his priestly vows and vocation. He said Mass under cover, in constant danger of death. He heard confession of hundreds who could have betrayed him; he aided spiritually many who could have gained by exposing him. This is a remarkable story of personal experience. It...

Violencia y paz... Las religiones están casi siempre en el centro de este dilema: fuente de violencia por su absolutismo, dicen unos, fuente de paz por sus doctrinas de bondad y por tantas iniciativas generosas, recuerdan otros. Han contribuido a numerosas guerras, pero también a numerosas pacificaciones. ¿Cómo aclarar este dilema y, si fuera necesario, reorientar a las religiones en el camino hacia la paz? En este libro, ocho especialistas hacen oír la voz de las religiones (budismo, cristianismo, islam y judaísmo) tanto sobre la paz como sobre la violencia -y la no violencia-, en un...

A través de estas páginas se señalan los nuevos retos que plantean fenómenos sociales que obligan a la Iglesia a pronunciarse con más vigor ante ataques a la vida, a la dignidad de las personas, a la familia, a la paz.

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