EMILIO’S VOYAGE

 “I celebrated mass for the first time in years of fear and poverty, when the bread we ate was small and black. Nonetheless, my father was able to put away some wine he’d made with his hands the year I was born… It felt like the Church, after the Council, had regained the fervour of its origins, and it was ready, as Pope John said, to take a leap forward, having freed itself from fear… but can we say fear was really defeated?”

A voyage with a streetwise priest, in search of Christianity in the modern world.