The black wing of the indistinct – L’Osservatore Romano

03 June 2026

by Leonardo Guzzo «From the depths of my future, throughout the absurd life I had led, a dark breath came towards me through years not yet born, and that breath leveled as it passed everything that was offered to me in the no longer real years that I was living. What did I care about the death of others, about the love of a mother, what did I care about her God of the lives that are chosen, the destinies that are chosen, if then it was a single destiny that elected me and with me billions of privileged people who, like him, called themselves my brothers? Did he understand, did he understand now? Everyone was privileged. There were only privileged people. One day the others would be condemned too. He too would have been condemned.” In this crucial passage from The Stranger by Albert Camus, the culmination of the dialogue between the condemned man …