The religious callings are supposedly on crisis. Almost anybody any longer has the spirit, nor the body, for the harshness that a priestly or monastic life demands in the Catholic Church. Why then, in telenovelas, mainly the Mexican ones, do we still see so many priests and nuns? According to telenovelas, we should see hundreds [...]

The other day, in these pages, a defender of the telenovela “Pasión” explained us which element made Ricardo de Salamanca, apart from his physical attractiveness, a very special character. Although we don’t remember the exact words, she said that in “Pasión” the characters don’t let themselves be affected or influenced by gossip or those ‘I-tell-you-and-you-tell-me’ [...]