The pity
Maturity for a delicate emotion
by Vito Viganò
It is the feeling you get when offering attention and participation to those who are experiencing painful conditions, showing that you are touched by them. It can be considered a variant of empathy, which is the social quality that gives meaning and dignity to human interactions.
Hope... despite everything
The maturity in experiencing trouble and adversity
by Vito Viganò
There are moments in life when what happens justifies the heavy impression of a pile of troubles. The pandemic, then the war, the worrying global warming with alternating droughts and hurricanes, the suffocated democracies and the looming economic crises: where is this poor humanity going? Today it is difficult to keep hope alive, but it becomes precious precisely when the troubles seem too much. For the believer it is a theological virtue, a gift from God because it is based on benevolent divine providence: "God sees and God provides". But hope is also a delicate human virtue, of which everyone is capable.
Tenderness
Maturity necessary to live it in a useful and dignified way.
by Vito Viganò
In these troubled times of ours, witnesses as we are of wars and nuclear threats, murderous wickedness and aberrant destruction, it is good for us to think that we are also capable of tenderness, of delicate and loving ways in interacting.