Reflections

– About a tired Church
– About how finance has usurped democracy
– About the creation of man (irony)About a tired Church

The Church is tired in the welfare Europe and in United States. Our culture has aged, our churches are big, our religious houses are empty and the Church’s bureaucratic apparatus grows, our rites and our habits are pompous. Do these things express who we are today?

Cardinal Carlo María Martini

About how finance has usurped democracy

In fact, banks have been bailed out with subsidies and State liquidity and still they have not transferred them into a productive loans policy in the five years of the ongoing crisis. A crucial part of the explanation lies in the unashamed power of the City: its colonization of Whitehall and public life, the effective control of their own regulation, the attraction that the revolving doors [between politics and finances] exercise upon politicians and functionaries, and the purchase of political parties. Finance has usurped democracy.

Seumas Milne

About the creation of man (irony)

Doctor Lightfoot, vice principal of Cambridge University, through a thorough study of the book of Genesis found that man was created on October 23rd 4004 B.C., at nine a.m.

Ernesto Sábato