10/10/2013. José Luis Restán. The Basilica-Cathedral of Our Lady of the Pillar (el Pilar in Spanish) is one of the greatest landmarks of Christian history in Spain. It indicates the starting point of evangelization in Roman times and also the great American mission that shaped Spanish Catholicism in the booming times of the 16th century.

09/10/2013. Guillermo Hirschfeld. Less than a month before the elections, crucial for the future of the political project that has been leading Argentina for a decade, no one could foresee an imponderable as the one that has actually taken place. Cristina Fernandez's health has been seriously affected by a health problem.

09/10/2013. Mauricio Rojas. The speech of the new king of the Netherlands, Willem-Alexander, about the need to replace the"classical Welfare State of the second half of the 20th century with a participation society" has opened a central discussion on our future. Its basic idea is simple: the Welfare State, a kind of enlightened despot which tried to solve the vital problems of the people "from above", by giving them solutions decided and managed by the bureaucratic-state apparatus has become a problem, from being the driving force of a sort of progress it has become a barrier to it.

08/10/2013. Martín Alonso. Over the last few days there have been many views and a lot of alarmed reporting on the mythical US Government shutdown. Most of that commentariat operates in conditions of nearly perfect ignorance aided and abetted by the usual ideological bias.

07/10/2013. Ángel Rivero. Juan José Linz died last Tuesday in New Haven (USA). He was the most important Spanish figure of international Political Science. Linz was born in Germany to a Spanish mother and a German father but was raised in Spain. His studies were conducted at the University of Madrid from where he went to the United States as a graduate trainee in 1950. His intention was to attend the New School for Social Research where Hannah Arendt was working and who, a year later, in 1951, published the three volumes of her very famous The Origins of Totalitarianism.

01/10/2013. Juan Carlos Jiménez Redondo. Pedro Passos Coelho's arrival in office took place after the failure of the socialist government led by José Socrates. The country's chaotic financial situation forced the then prime minister to resign in 2010 after parliament rejected his fourth austerity plan.

30/09/2013. Fernando de Haro . For a moment, silence was shattered. The attack on a church in Peshawar, which left nearly 100 dead on 22 September, has set the situation of the Christian community in Pakistan momentarily at the centre of international news.

26/09/2013. Florian Eder. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has won a brilliant victory. The Christian-conservative parties CDU and CSU have only stayed a handful of deputies away from having the majority in the Bundestag.