Life presses on
Current Events"The fact we cannot make the pilgrimage to Czestochowa has not erased the irreducible need that inspires it." Summer proposal for high school and college graduates.
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“Caro cardo salutis”
Current EventsTranslations of Chapter 3 of Fr. Julián Carrón's book The radiance in your eyes - What saves us from nothingness?
A “strange" joy that cannot be explained
Current EventsAn online presentation of Un evento nella vita dell'uomo [An Event in the life of man], Fr. Giussani’s most recently published book in Italian. Carmine Di Martino retraces the provocations that Giussani put forward in the 1991-1993 Fraternity Exercises.
Meeting 2020: The program launch
Current EventsAs announced, it will be a "blended" edition: partially live and partially online. Everything, however, will be visible online, from all over the world. President Scholz and Director Forlani have revealed this year's topics and guests.
Brazil: If our heart is not in quarantine
Current EventsA cultural evening promoted by a group of GS students via Zoom. An evening not of entertainment, but of provocation and for the “bombardment of desire".
Books for GS: A crystal from millions of moments
CultureAnother recommended vacation reading for GS students. In "Five loaves and Two Fish", Cardinal Van Thuan reflects upon his thirteen years of imprisonment.
Books for GS: Chosen for great things
CultureHer family wished a good marriage for Catherine, a quiet life. But the Lord calls her when she is only six, so that she might shake the life of the powerful upon earth. One of the books recommended to GS students for the summer.
Portugal: "Rediscovering ourselves as sons and daughters”
Current EventsA presentation of the Portuguese translation of "Reawakening Our Humanity", with Julián Carrón, economist João César das Neves and historian Rui Ramos. A dialogue closely linked to experience.
“A festival of humanity”
Current EventsIn a presentation of the English translation of "Reawakening Our Humanity", the book's provocations were placed at the centre of a dialogue to better understand what questions have emerged in this period, and how they can be sustained.
Carrón: “May the Mystery renew in you the wonder of your first encounter with Christ”
ChurchThe priestly and diaconal ordinations of the Fraternity of St. Charles are taking place in Rome, Turin, Cologne and Washington. The message of the President of the CL Fraternity.
Luxembourg: the charity “bouncers”
Current EventsSimone and his friends have lived in Luxembourg for some years now. During lockdown, they realized that there is a food distribution service for the poor in the parish. It is an opportunity to resume charitable work, and to learn again what it really is.
The bubble and a different logic
Current EventsA group of ambassadors to the Holy See asked Julián Carrón to discuss the themes of Reawakening Our Humanity with them. A rich and profound conversation. We spoke about it with the Ecuadorian representative José Luis Álvarez Palacio.
“How can this abyss of life be filled?"
Current EventsChapter 2 of Julián Carrón's book The radiance in your eyes - What saves us from nothingness?
Portugal: “Confront my questions, without fear”
Current EventsA Portuguese presentation of Reawakening Our Humanity will take place today. Manuel, 18 years old, after reading it during quarantine, told his friends about it. Here is what he said, and the dialogue that followed.
Fraternity of St. Charles: "Only their ‘yes’ in the foreground"
Church“Special" ordinations this year for the new deacons and priests. Not in Rome, but on different dates in the places of mission where the ordinands find themselves, without relatives and friends to celebrate.
Paraguay: "The richness of our fragility”
Current EventsA three-way dialogue on “Reawakening Our Humanity” between various protagonists from Paraguay’s political and cultural landscape, to better understand where to find answers to so many questions at this time.
Baldwin and Race
CultureAn introduction to James Baldwin and his considerations on race, written for those who were joining in the preparation of the James Baldwin exhibition at the New York Encounter 2020.
Presentation of "Reawakening Our Humanity"
Current EventsAn English presentation of Reawakening Our Humanity, with Fr. Julián Carrón and contributions from Rebekah Lamb and Arlene Gallagher, moderated by Giuseppe Pezzini.
Macerata-Loreto. Carrón: "Life as vocation"
Current EventsOn the eve of the 42nd Pilgrimage, which this year will be in the form of a pilgrimage on the evening of June 13, the message of the President of the Fraternity of CL.
Raphael: The Great sweetness
CultureHe died young, five hundred years ago. A short life, but with an intense and precocious artistic fecundity. After the lockdown, a great exhibition on the artist re-opens in Rome, an opportunity to see his work free from stereotypes.
Answer to powerlessness is not show of power, but presence
Current EventsThe death of George Floyd, the protests and debates about racism. What is in the foreground, however, is a great "need to live, to breathe". A contribution from catholicphilly.com