Reflections

– About only blaming the last link
– About needing ideals
– About believers and non-believers
About only blaming the last link

A 16 year old kills a family man under the influence of drugs. I wonder: what if the drugs he used passed right through the borders thanks to a corrupt Councilor? And what if it slipped through several police checks on the road, no questions asked? And who sold him the gun for 50 pesos? And who initiated him into drugs? And who were the ones that did not know how to keep him in an educational environment? And who were the ones that did not take care of his family? And who got drunk in his house and beat him as a kid? A finger, just a small and slim finger pulled the trigger. But there was a long chain of many links that contributed to firing the gun. Are we going to set all the blame upon the last link?

Jorge Lozano, Bishop of Gualeguaychú

About needing ideals

The modern young man needs ideals and, in a society in crisis, not only European but global, no one offers him them. Facing that absence, he finds himself pulled between toxic baits such as drugs and vandalism, psychosomatic diseases or the religious temptation that causes the mirage of a solution.

Julia Kristeva

About believers and non-believers

The questions raised by non-believers help believers; same way the believer’s passion can help a non-believer. These two worlds that admit many nuances, these two ways of metabolizing mystery, have no need to build a wall between each other, nor to ignore the invisible bridges that unite them.

Enrique Valiente Noailles