Antonio Carlos Santini

Useless Latin

Published by Antonio Carlos Santini
15 de March de 2012

  – Ave, Caesar, morituri… – Cut that out, would you! It’s been fifty years since the seminar and you still insist on speaking in Latin? Useless Latin… – Data…

Good times!

Published by Antonio Carlos Santini
29 de February de 2012

– Salutations Canuto! It’s been too long! – Too true! Over thirty years now! – Much longer! Conceição de Rio Verde, 1958… Almost 60 years! – Time sure flies… –…

The priest’s wife

Published by Antonio Carlos Santini
13 de February de 2012

Here and there – more and more frequently – the media is opening its airways to the voices of those imploring for the abolition of priestly celibacy. It would raise…

The Thorn in the Foot

Published by Antonio Carlos Santini
5 de January de 2012

The very well known Greco-Roman sculpture “Spinario”, a brilliant work by an anonymous artist, dated 1st Century AD, Hellenistic period, is of an adolescent boy wholly dedicated to the endeavor…

The Church: the open wound

Published by Antonio Carlos Santini
21 de December de 2011

The church is a body. It pulsates with life, but it can be hurt and it can also bleed… Giovanni Cucci e Hans Zollner’s book The church and pedophilia, an…

Lords of the Land

Published by Antonio Carlos Santini
4 de November de 2011

When the European first disembarked onto today’s Brazilian coast, the indigenous peoples did not had lands. Actually, the natives hadn’t even imagined that it was possible to “have” a piece…