Jaime Camino

Captured by the Russian army during World War II and convicted of being a "Vatican spy", American Jesuit Father Walter J. Ciszek spent some 23 agonizing years in Soviet prisons and the labor camps of Siberia. He here recalls how it was only through an utter reliance on God's will that he managed to endure. He tells of the courage he found in prayer - a courage that eased the loneliness, the pain, the frustrations, the anguish, the fears, the despair. For, as Ciszek relates, the solace of spiritual contemplation gave him an inner serenity upon which he was able to draw amid the "arrogance of...

Las hijas de Juan shatters the silence surrounding experiences of incest within a working-class Mexican American family. Both a feminist memoir and a hopeful meditation on healing, it is Josie Méndez-Negrete’s story of how she and her siblings and mother survived years of violence and sexual abuse at the hands of her father. Méndez-Negrete was born in Mexico, in the state of Zacatecas. She recalls a joyous childhood growing up in the midst of Tabasco, a vibrant town filled with extended family. Her father, though, had dreams of acquiring wealth in el norte. He worked sun-up to sun-down in ...

THOMAS MERTON. The man and his interior life - The work of Thomas Merton gives us the keys to solve our own contradictions that were also his: a life of faith and doubts, solitude and the necessity to live for others, the presence of God and his absence, poverty and the necessity of economic stability

En estas páginas entrañables, no exentas de humor y de amistad, se revive la figura de Tomás Moro (1478-1535), canciller del reino de Inglaterra y mártir de la fe católica. En ellas encontramos el ejemplo perfecto del laico consciente de su responsabilidad en el Iglesia, y de los derechos y deberes que ésta implica. Su testimonio es a la vez actual y profético. El autor, Louis Bouyer, además de uno de los grandes teólogos de nuestro tiempo y un escritor de talento, es un perfecto conocedor de la corriente humanista del siglo XVI, en la que Moro se enmarca, y nos presenta de manera...