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Of Danilo Quinto
It's not suitable, both for its length, both for his intentions, to those who are in a hurry.

"Gentleman, there you are, you are enough for me". This is what he who has faith says in the face of humiliation, to discouragements, to suffering, to injustices, to the defeats he suffers on his earthly journey.
When the man who has faith feels prostrate and experiences a struggle that is unbearable for him - even humbly turning to God to ask Him for help and support – precisely then he exercises faith. In the deepest depths of his life, man's response to this state of prostration can rend and open Heaven. Make it strong against any kind of earthly event that occurs.
Jesus expresses this reality of our life with the image of “narrow door”. Dice (Lu, 13, 24): “Strive to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, they will try to enter it, but they won't succeed". Read More

Of Flavia Corso
Psychopathy and Power
Source: Heretically
“The psychopath is someone who is capable of carrying out even terrible gestures without his feelings registering the slightest emotional shock. The heart is not in tune with thought and thought with gesture”
(U. Galimberti, The disturbing guest)
If you think that psychopaths are necessarily serial killers well present in the collective imagination, you are very wrong. The psychopath is not necessarily a murderer; in many cases, on the contrary, it is an individual well inserted within society, apparently gifted with charisma, fascino and know-how, mask that he uses effectively in social contexts in order to hide the total absence of conscience and empathy. Who suffers from psychopathy, he persistently manipulates everyone around him to achieve his own selfish ends. The people the psychopath uses, they are therefore simple tools in his hands, victims for whom he will never feel guilt, shame or remorse. For this natural predator, the end always justifies the means e, almost as if it were a computer rather than a human being, each of his actions is the result of mere calculation based on the achievement of a single objective: personal interest (money, sex, fame and self-gratificationand in general…). The psychopath is an almost amoral individual: on a cognitive level, He knows very well what is right and wrong, good and evil, but without this involving any emotional participation. He understands very well what emotions like love are, the pain, sadness and even empathy, but he can't try them.
Where the emotional element is neglected for the benefit of the exclusively rational one, you are, there can be no good ethics, since reason and feeling together contribute to the development of moral judgment. It is estimated that psychopaths make up 1% of the world's population. This would be reassuring news, if it weren't for their great ability to quickly rise to the top of the social pyramid, using their manipulative skills. Being totally devoid of empathy, Indeed, these subjects will have no qualms about behaving incorrectly towards their peers, just to get to positions of power. We will therefore often find them at the head of large companies, but not by virtue of their actions, but exclusively thanks to their predatory and parasitic nature. The term "Corporate Psychopath" is used by scholars precisely to outline the profile of the corporate psychopath who maneuvers within the working environment, arousing admiration around him, simply because he was disguised as a skilled businessman. To disguise yourself socially, the psychopath mimics the emotional states of normal people by acquiring and reproducing their facial expressions and body language. Act, because he cannot do otherwise. But what are the causes of psychopathic personality?? Research in the field of neuropsychopathology has highlighted how psychopathy is determined by a real brain anomaly: the areas predisposed to the processing of emotional material (parts of the limbic region, the hippocampus and the amygdala) they would not function adequately in the psychopathic brain. Read More