Our Common Purpose

“No man is an island,” as the old adage goes. It implies that no one is assumed to go through life and its densities completely alone. However, as time progress and ideas and opinions abound on how one must go through such densities, we get isolated, separated from one another. In the assertion that our […]

Are You Listening?

The documentary, A Snake Gives Birth to a Snake, follows a group of actors as they take the message of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission to the war-torn countries of Rwanda, Northern Ireland, and former Yugoslavia.  The actors artistically convey the message of the commission through a play in which they are the […]

Krakow, the city that gave us the WYA Charter

My sister, Mary, once had a shirt made for me that said “I wrote the Charter”. Hundreds of thousands of young people have now signed this WYA Charter that was finalized in Krakow, Poland. Krakow, one of the medieval centerpieces of the world was a market town in which east meets west, and people traded goods, […]

Vukovar and Dubrovnik: On freedom, solidarity, peace and beauty today

Vukovar i Dubrovnik: o slobodi, solidarnosti, miru i ljepoti baš danas City of Dubrovnik from the air [tabs] [tab title=”English”] It is today that we have to talk about beauty and about freedom, especially among the youth. We lost the art of living these notions because of political correctness watering down  the universal human values: […]

Art and Society

As a current fourth year student in the Philippines, one of the classes I am taking up is Rizal, a class where we study the life, the works, the death, and the impact of Jose Rizal, our national hero. Jose Rizal is a very renowned Filipino for writing the novels Noli Me Tangere and El […]

The life you save might be your own

  Today, an ad article sponsored by Cadillac for GQ landed in my feed. The slogan for the ad feature is “Only those who dare, drive the world forward.” It features the “Daring 25” with slick photography of beautiful, successful people who dare to change the world. One has started a bespoke tie company. Another […]

Unconditional Love and infinite value

When a child grows up, it is fundamental that he feels loved just because he is a human person, no matter any other condition. The unconditional love of his parents has a key role in making the child aware of his infinite value. This is the root that will make him able to develop integrally. […]

Making Introverted Leaders: Why The Future Looks Bright?

Interview with Ines Lobo Lozano, a WYA Europe intern A few days ago – just when the buzz about Donald Trump winning the US elections has reached its climax – I had a privilege to have a private talk with Ines Lobo Lozano. A shy and soft-spoken girl with even softer accent from the north […]

Impressions from the 4th WYA Week in Croatia

WYA Week is the main event of the year for the WYA community in Croatia. It’s a project in which almost all the members participate in some way or the other. Some members are assigned to organize a specific day, some work with the media, others host in radio and TV shows or make preparations for […]

Partisan Politics and the Pro-Life movement in the United States

There are few issues as polarizing in the United States as that of abortion. Many of Americans have seen unproductive arguments on tv and within our own communities over the status of human life before birth and its implications for people everywhere-men, women, and children. The Human Life Review recently hosted a panel discussion at […]