Each year, the Church gives us the season of Lent as a spiritual journey toward Easter. For forty days, Christians prepare to celebrate the central mystery of our faith: the passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. This season, inspired by the forty days Christ spent in the desert, invites conversion of heart and a profound renewal of our Christian life. However, Lent is not simply a set of religious practices. Beyond prayer, fasting, and almsgiving—the three traditional pillars of...

Professor Esther Ruiz Simón reflects on the importance of educating in beauty as a path towards truth, virtue, and contemplation in the educational process. We are publishing the first collaboration on Recoletos.org by Esther Ruiz Simón , a professor in the area of Theory and History of Education at Rey Juan Carlos University . She teaches in the Primary and Early Childhood Education degrees, as well as in the Master’s in Teacher Training for Secondary Education, Baccalaureate, Vocational...

Pope Leo XIV, known as the "Mathematics Pope" for his degree in Mathematics from Villanova University, has sent a message on the occasion of the International Day of Mathematics in which he invites the integration of the moral dimension into the development of algorithms and artificial intelligence. ACI PRENSA. On the occasion of the International Day of Mathematics, celebrated on March 14, Pope Leo XIV—who holds a degree in Mathematics from Villanova University—encourages mathematicians to...