The Search for Hope: Is it Possible to Change the Human Heart?

Columnist Mossèn Pere Rovira reflects on human duality and the necessity of choosing "good" amidst political tension and international conflicts.

Abstract representation of human duality, with shadows and light, symbolizing the search for meaning and hope.
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Abstract representation of human duality, with shadows and light, symbolizing the search for meaning and hope.

Columnist Mossèn Pere Rovira explores the inherent duality of human nature and the constant search for Truth, suggesting hope as the necessary response to political instability and social tragedies observed in early 2026.

The current political and international landscape remains tense and ungovernable, failing to address social needs and focusing instead on maintaining power. This climate, exacerbated by recent railway tragedies and territorial conflicts, forces a choice between resignation and renewed hope.
Throughout history, humanity has demonstrated its capacity for both «monster or saint». Rovira argues that true freedom is not the ability to do as one pleases, but the choice of «good» that leads to the vocation of «love».
The pursuit of immutable Truth has driven humanity since the Greek philosophers. The author asserts that questioning observable reality and considering religion as a response is a healthy and rational act, not an evasion, but an expression of this existential search.

I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; and he who seeks, finds; and to him who knocks, it will be opened (Mt 11, 9—10).

The column concludes that Jesus Christ represents God's answer to human loneliness and fragility, providing a sense of meaning that transcends rational understanding, rejecting the notion that humanity is merely a genetic automatism or product of chance.