The Narthex
Gaudí Alive: A Construction Site, a Life of Faith
From fashionable architect to 'God's architect'
By Sabino Paciolla | July 24th 2026 10:32 AMMy first encounter with the works and genius of Antoni Gaudí dates back almost 15 years, when my wife suggested a trip to Barcelona, the city where almost a century earlier the architect had begun work on one of the last great cathedrals built in the West. I wasn't familiar…
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The overreaching State presumes to define what is 'socialization' and a suitable lifestyle
By Sabino Paciolla | July 2nd 2026 11:43 AMYesterday I was absorbed in listening to Antonín Dvořák's Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104. It was the 1970 studio version, with Jacqueline du Pré as soloist and her husband, Daniel Barenboim, conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. There is also a famous live version from 1968, performed as a…
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