Philosophical, cultural and political reflections on how Beauty will save the world
Filozofske, kulturne i političke refleksije o tome kako će Ljepota spasiti svijet [tabs] [tab title=”English”] Exposition from the European Arts Forum 2015 in Brussels Probably many of you are already familiar with the sentence said by Prince Miskhin in Dostoyevsky’s novel The Idiot: “Beauty will save the world“. Not only that he said that, but […]
No, a UN Committee Did Not Affirm Abortion as a Human Right
English A recent article on the Huffington Post claimed in its title that a United Nations committee had recognized abortion as a human right in the complaint of K.L. against Peru. However, the article misrepresents international law and the actual report. Not only is abortion not a right in international law, no U.N. committee has […]
Our Greatest Freedom is Our Freedom to Choose Our Attitude
On January 22, the World Youth Alliance had the great opportunity to take part in the March for Life in Washington D.C. Despite the snow and the cold, four members of our organization joined thousands of people to defend Life, to defend the dignity of the most vulnerable human being, to defend the right to […]
120 Years of National Institute for Blind Children Upbringing
120 godina Zemaljskog zavoda za odgoj slijepe djece [tabs] [tab title=”English”] Typhlological Museum On December 17, 2015 the exhibition 120 Years of National Institute for Blind Children Upbringing was opened in the Typhlological Museum in Zagreb, Croatia, and it will remain open until January 22, 2016. The purpose of the exhibition is to mark the […]
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 […]