How I Got My Voice Back: My WYA International Internship Experience
What’s on your mind? If you are a Facebook user, you will recognize these words at an instant. It gleams at you as you open Facebook– gray, translucent and harmless. But what else can it signify? I’d argue that it actually reflects something much bigger. Unlike my peers online, I find it quite difficult to […]
Lessons of dignity, courage and strength
Growing up, I would always hear a lot of stories from cancer victims and survivors around me. On a personal note, I also had a number of close friends and family members who have gone through difficult time struggling with this unpredictable disease. After I and my fellow interns decided to organize an animation day for children suffering from cancer […]
Unusual solidarity of an atheist and a religious man at the Dr. Freud’s last session
Neobična solidarnost ateista i vjernika u posljednoj seansi Dr. Freuda [tabs] [tab title=”English”] An interesting duo consisting of the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, and one of the greatest christian apologetics of the 20th century, the writer C.S. Lewis, has recently been introduced for the first time to the audience in Zagreb, in the […]
A Reflection on the NA ELC
As I huddled at the back of the room with a donated cup of coffee, I was taken aback by the sixty young people packed into rows of chairs, listening intently to a talk by founder Anna Halpine about the reason for the World Youth Alliance. According to our culture, this isn’t supposed to be […]
100 Years of Friendship: Centesimus Annus
Pope St. John Paul II proposed to do two things in his encyclical letter Centesimus Annus (on the hundredth anniversary of Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical Rerum Novarum [of new things]): look back at the earlier document “itself in order to discover anew the richness of the fundamental principles which it formulated for dealing with the […]
Tolkien’s optimism about human nature: A lesson for our society today
As a young student committed to make a change in today’s world, I have been struck by our society’s lack of optimism concerning certain people. Indeed, I often hear sentences like: “this person is a lost cause and we cannot do anything for him or her”. This sentence mainly concerns people who are poor or […]
A Tale of Two Shoes: Children of Heaven, a Review
Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with the necessities. – G.K. Chesterton, 1920 Children of Heaven is an introspective film. Directed by Majid Majidi, Children of Heaven was the first Iranian film to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and it secured an American box office […]
Loving All: The Story of Les Choristes
All my life I have been surrounded by music, and I’ve loved every second of it. Growing up exposed to music, I saw the world in a different way; instead of simply seeing a clock’s pendulum swing back in forth, I would match the march of the seconds to the rhythmic flickering of the router […]
In Favor of Eccentrics (Notes from the Casale Street)
U prilog ekscentricima (Zapisi iz ulice Casale) [tabs] [tab title=”English”] “They broke me, put me in a vase and they say they love me,” Rovinj painter Slobodan Vuličević said about himself. That is a quote which today, six years after his death, is in the collection of his thoughts published in the book Notes from […]
On The Worth of Workers
In the sphere of economics … new structures for the production of consumer goods had progressively taken shape. A new form of property had appeared—capital; and a new form of labor—labor for wages, characterized by high rates of production which lacked due regard for sex, age or family situation, and were determined solely by efficiency, […]