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The Knight of the Woeful Figure

Catholic Stuff You Should Know

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The Power of Humor

Don Quixote is written at the height of the Spanish Inquisition. And there are great saints running around Spain at this time. The world is really illusory and it is filled with just these desires so that are absolutely irreconcilable. We have to be able to laugh, but we also have to being able to have hope. Our home is not this world. This is not the point of it. That's the most ridiculous thing about life.

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