Greater Than Guilt

An immense purity is what remains in the end

Greater Than Guilt/31 - You can be "king" if you don't stop being a son by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 19/08/2018 «Io non vivo in me ma fuori Io sono manchevole io faccio continuamente errori Non so perché forse non più degli altri Ma a me pare di farne di più… Oh fuori ci sono gli alberi...

He isn’t only the God of the strong

Greater than Guilt/30 - The last chapter often brings about a different time by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 12/08/2018 “Moses then saw how God wrote the word ‘long-suffering’ in the Torah, and asked: »Does this mean that Thou hast patience with the pious?« But God answered: »Nay, with sin...

The Mother’s Gesture Is Like Leaven

Greater than Guilt/29 - Always reminding us that every son is a son of all by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 05/08/2018 “In Heaven she is sure to find your mother again, and she is also sure to find your other grandmother. Donna Maria Vincenza assured me that if the Eternal Father does not t...

The Word of Peace Is Feminine

Greater than Guilt/28 - It would be nice to see history through mothers'eyes by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 29/07/2018 The grand-vizir himself was the father of two daughters, of whom the elder was called Scheherazade, and the younger Dinarzade. (...) One day, when the grand-vizir was tal...

God Stands by the Victims

Greater than Guilt/27 - Let’s learn to find God where he isn’t supposed to be by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 22/07/2018 “I will not urge thee, - no nor, if thou yet shouldst have the mind, wouldst thou be welcome as a worker with me. Nay, be what thou wilt; but I will bury him... But if t...

Let’s Save Every Suspended Son

Greater than Guilt/26 - The Bible is a moral exercise to become more human by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 15/07/2018 “Plato would be the one to abolish the cries of famous people and to make them the subject of common men and women, so that those whom we say we train for the defence of th...

Peace is the Intelligence of Mothers

Greater Than Guilt/25 - Every fratricide story is, unfortunately, real by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 08/07/2018 “Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, stop this warful strife, or Jove will be angry with you.” Thus spoke Minerva, and Ulysses obeyed her gladly. Homer, Odyssey; Conclusion (Englis...

The Infinite Heart of Women

Greater than Guilt/24 - Real love does not resort to violence but stays around by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 01/07/2018 “Verily, a polluted stream is man.  One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.” Friedrich Nietzsche Thus Spake Zarathustra (English t...

The Register of Invisible Pain

Greater than Guilt/23 - Human History is Not God’s Toy by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 24/06/2018 “ we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor: this even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips.” Will...

The Letter Not to Be Read

Greater than Guilt/22 - Faces to be recognized and providential ignorance by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 17/06/2018 “Emma let the paper fall. Her first sentiment was indisposition in her stomach and knees; then she felt blind guilt, unreality, cold, fear; then she wanted it to be the next...

Christians, that is, men and women, brothers and sisters

Greater than Guilt/21 - No rhetoric stands: every war is fratricide by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 10/06/2018 “Rabbi Pinhas said: ‘Whoever says that the words of the Torah are one thing and the words of the world another, must be regarded as a man who denies God’”. Martin Buber Tales of t...

The Wonderful Laicity of God

Greater than Guilt/20 - Biblical humanism is an endless education for liberty by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 03/06/2018 “If your heart does not wish to give in If it feels no passion, if it does not want to suffer Without making plans about what will follow My heart can love for the both ...

The Different Decorum of Women

by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 27/05/2018 “It was by the grace of God, not on account of his merits, that Noah found shelter in the ark before the overwhelming force of the waters. Although he was better than his contemporaries, he was yet not worthy of having wonders done for his sake.” ...

Memorial Stones for the Innocent

Greater than Guilt/18 - The executioners humiliate their victims by denying them the dignity of their name by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 20/05/2018 “This I-Thou relation consists of placing oneself before an outside being, i.e. one who is radically other, and in recognizing that being as...