Bettina Betzner Tag

Pilar Andrade, Spain • The issue of environmentalism bothers a lot of people. They find the demonstrations in which thousands of people – especially young people – take to the streets demanding measures to prevent an environmental catastrophe, exaggerated. Greta Thünberg, in particular, is bothering people: how can a teenage brat teach government leaders lessons? In Spain, which is where I write from, many associate environmentalism with the extreme left, and therefore with a political ideology whose historical roots are not only alien, but even contradictory to some aspects ofRead More
By Bettina Betzner, Germany  • Dear Pope Francis, I would like to have a personal conversation with you about ‘Laudato Si’. I would like to seek your warm closeness, to look into your eyes, to be captured by your warm gaze, to be moved by your spiritual depth and your authenticity, to make your concern my concern… I had this experience when I saw the film “A Man of His Word” by Wim Wenders. —   Meeting you has changed something in me. After your message in the film IRead More

Posted On 25.05.2020In Covenant Life

Please with Style

GERMANY, Bettina Betzner • I like to wear beautiful and for me stylish clothes, whether at work or privately. Quality is important to me and since this year, sustainability, a new ecological awareness in the spirit of Laudato Si.— On the one hand, the clothing should emphasize the personality of the wearer, because what we wear and how we wear it is an expression of our soul and sends a personal message to our surroundings. So it is not just a matter of something being “veiled” somehow, but Am IRead More