Humanism and Spirituality

The current crisis is profound, touching our formative landscape and making us question the way we have learned to see everything. What we imagined the future to be is melting before our own eyes, like icebergs in the Arctic. All…

National mobilisation in solidarity with the Ukrainian people and the victims of all wars. On 5 November a national mobilisation for peace will take place in Rome, Italy, with the slogans “immediate ceasefire, negotiation for peace”, “ban all nuclear weapons”,…

The campaign “Let’s Organise Peace and Active Nonviolence Now! in the Ihuanco Park of Study and Reflection” culminated this Sunday, October 23rd, with various activities carrying a message of peace and action against all types of violence: physical, economic, racial,…

With this and other slogans such as Violence can be learned, nonviolence too! the campaign: Let’s organise peace and active nonviolence Now! closed on Sunday 23 October in the Ihuanco Park of Study and Reflection. From the moment we arrived…

Towards the African Humanist Forum, communities and local NGO’s put into practice Humanist values. In Kisumu County in Kenya, Lavina Achieng Odour shares with Pressenza her experience in supporting children affected by Spina Bifida (SB), Hydrocephalus (HC) and other disabilities.…

a photo essay by Edward M. Gerlock   There is no description but an attempt to see what participants see. There was a time when I was asked to teach at the major seminary (Maryhill) and it bothered me that…

A few events in the news are impacting our understanding of the current situation and have motivated me to write this piece. Putin annexes Ukraine’s Donbas region, while Ukraine reconquers other invaded cities and threatens to recapture Crimea. Putin declares…

Childhood observes this world, listens to this life. What it hears, is it that we would like? What she sees, is it what is right? From where do children look? From what values would we like them to build this…

Discoveries in the fields of human origins, paleoanthropology, cognitive science, and behavioral biology have accelerated in the past few decades. We occasionally bump into news reports that new findings have revolutionary implications for how humanity lives today—but the information for…

In 2021 I published a book called “The White-West: A Look in the Mirror” with the naive objective of trying to encourage discussion of the systemic discrimination carried out by the West. The book consists of a series of articles…