The Prophecy of Malachy is a prophecy attributed to Saint Malachy, Archbishop of Armagh, who, according to tradition, had a vision of future popes during …
Squid Game: you are a player and you don’t know it
You’re sitting there, on the couch, watching the show everyone’s talking about: Squid Game. Yet the truth is something else entirely: you’re not just a …
The Dark Night of the Soul
For mystics, the “dark night of the soul” is a phase of life where we feel immersed in a kind of inner darkness and spiritual …
The errors of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray is a novel by Oscar Wilde from 1890, considered a literary manifesto of Aestheticism. Dorian Gray is a beautiful young …
The butterfly lesson
“For the Greeks, the ‘psyché’, the butterfly, is the symbol of the vital energy that hides within each of us and, at the same time, …
Alice in Wonderland: the most amazing journey
“Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”** is an 1865 novel by the writer, mathematician, and Anglican priest Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll). It narrates …
“Paris is well worth a mass” …a black mass
Close your eyes. Imagine a summer evening in Paris, the city of love. Picture yourself attending the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games, a spectacle …
The Dark Side of Music
Music has made its choice and has embraced the Dark Side. Not only the Grammys, but also Eurovision confirms this annually. In this year’s most …
Poor Things: “Abandon all hope, ye who enter” the cinema!
Finally, the highly anticipated “Poor Things” has arrived in our theaters in Italy. Poor Things tells the story of Bella Baxter (Emma Stone), a young …
The science of God
We tend to think that somehow science and faith are opposing concepts. However, this is not the case at all: scientists who dedicate their lives …
