Tolle et lege: May 15, 2011

Sunday, May 15, 2011

EE.UU y Gran Bretaña presionaron a Pío XII para que guardara silencio ante la brutalidad nazi

EE.UU y Gran Bretaña presionaron a Pío XII para que guardara silencio ante la brutalidad nazi: "

Estados Unidos y Gran Bretaña presionaron a Pío XII para que guardara silencio ante la brutalidad nazi con el fin de evitar que su protesta tuviera otras consecuencias, según revelan documentos hasta ahora inéditos, descubiertos por la Fundación Pave the Way. Estas revelaciones permiten comprender mejor las circunstancias en las que actuó el papa Eugenio Pacelli.

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Balancing on the Empire State

Balancing on the Empire State: "

‘Construction of the Empire State Building was one of the most remarkable feats of the 20th century. It took only 410 days to build, by 3,400 workers, many of them desperate for work at the height of the Depression. The work force was made up largely of immigrants, along with hundreds of Mohawk Indian iron workers.’

- Washington Post

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All images by Lewis Wickes Hine, New York Public Library

Thank you to Robert Loch

"Stay Young" General MacArthur, 1945

Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. It is a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease.

Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair, these are the long, long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust.

Whether seventy or seventeen there is in every beings heart the love of wonder, the sweet amazement of the stars and the starlight things and thoughts, the undaunted challenge of events and the childlike appetite for what’s next, and the joy and the game of life.

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt, as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear. So long as your heart receives messages of beauty, cheer, courage, grandeur and power from the earth, from man, and from the infinite, so long you are young.