There is an ancient Christian saying from the Patristic Era which is known in its most concise form as lex orandi, lex credendi. As the Catechism of the Catholic Church translates it: “The law of prayer is the law of faith: the Church believes as she pray...
The book is also available for purchase through McGill-Queen's University Press. The book can also be acquired in pounds sterling. Father Luigi Giussani engaged tirelessly in educational initiatives throughout the course of his life. Much of his thoug...
Translated by John Zucchi. (The book is also available for purchase through HAB Books) The Religious Sense, the fruit of many years of dialogue with students, is an exploration of the search for meaning in life. Luigi Giussani shows that the nature ...
The Miracle of Hospitality
In his introduction, Fr. Julián Carrón asks: "Why is hospitality a miracle? It seems like something we should take for granted—opening the door of our home and letting someone in should be normal." And yet, he notes, "it is so exceptional that when it hap...
(The book is also available for purchase through Barnes and Noble, itacalibri, and through the National office in NY by writing to communionandliberation@clhac.com) Generating Traces in the History of the World is a synthesis of Monsignor Luigi Giussan...
Translated by Mariangela Sullivan Luigi Giussani, a high school religion teacher throughout the 1950s and 1960s, grounded his teachings in the vast body of experience to be found in Christianity's two-thousand-year history. He told his students, “I'm n...
(The book is also available for purchase through Barnes and Noble and through the National office in NY by writing to communionandliberation@clhac.com) In this inquiry into Christ's Incarnation, Luigi Giussani examines Christ's "claim" to identify hims...
The Journey to Truth Is an Experience
Translated and annotated by J. Zucchi. With the assistance of P. Stevenson(The book is also available for purchase through Barnes and Noble, itacalibri, and through the National office in NY by writing to communionandliberation@clhac.com) The Journey to Truth Is an Experience is the first English translation of three booklet...
(The book is also available for purchase through Barnes and Noble and through the National office in NY by writing to communionandliberation@clhac.com) From its beginnings, the Church has presented itself as a human phenomenon that carries the divine w...
The Life of Luigi Giussani
Monsignor Luigi Giussani (1922-2005) was the founder of the Catholic lay movement Communion and Liberation in Italy, which has hundreds of thousands of adherents around the globe. In The Life of Luigi Giussani Alberto Savorana, who spent an important part...
A Generative Thought
(The book is also available for purchase through Barnes and Noble, itacalibri, and through the National office in NY by writing to communionandliberation@clhac.com) A generative thought presents Luigi Giussani’s works to the English-speaking world thro...
(The book is also available for purchase through Barnes and Noble, itacalibri, and through the National office in NY by writing to communionandliberation@clhac.com) The Communion and Liberation movement, founded by Mons. Luigi Giussani, is based on the...
Other available translations: ARABIC-Pdf, ARABIC-Epub. In this volume, the President of the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation faces one of the most widespread questions in this time dominated by uncertainty. “Is there hope?” The impact with the...
Education. Communicating One’s Self
A contribution to the event encouraged by Pope Francis: “Reconstructing the Global Compact on Education”Education is transmitting the meaning of life; it is not a word, it is an experience. The problem of education, first and foremost, concerns us adults, because the opportunity that our young people may have of encountering a path for their journey depe...
In this book, Julián Carrón, the president of the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation, reflects on this dizzying time in which nothingness looms so powerfully over everyone’s life, making us doubt whether life is positive and question the ultimate subs...
Edited by Alberto Savorana. In the course of just a few weeks, the health emergency caused by COVID-19 has become a shared experience. All of us, in different ways, have felt the challenge. Paradoxically, the state of isolation in which we find ourselv...
Should we battle a plural and relativistic society by raising barriers and walls, or should we accept the opportunity to announce the Gospel in a new way? This is the challenge Christians are facing today. In an extended interview with Vatican expert A...
In 2005, Father Julián Carrón became the leader of the global ecclesial movement Communion and Liberation, following the death of the movement’s founder, Father Luigi Giussani. Disarming Beauty is the English translation of an engaging and thought-provoki...
Saint Francis of Assisi
Francis of Assisi is, after Mary of Nazareth, the greatest saint in the Christian calendar, and one of the most influential men in the whole of human history. By universal acclaim, this biography by G.K. Chesterton is considered the best appreciation of F...
The experience of suffering has posed a profound existential challenge to human hearts and minds throughout history. But it has become especially problematic in our time, when, with our good intentions and technological prowess, we seek to relieve the suf...
The Robe
A Roman soldier, Marcellus, wins Christ's robe as a gambling prize. He then sets forth on a quest to find the truth about the Nazarene's robe-a quest that reaches to the very roots and heart of Christianity and is set against the vividly limned background...
Continuing his popular series of novels about saints of the Church, de Wohl devotes his considerable talents to an interpretation of one of the most unusual women of all time, Saint Catherine of Siena. The daughter of a prosperous dyer in fourteenth-centu...
What is Christian in Christianity?
A Journey to the Heart of the Christian ExperienceEncounter with Monsignor Lorenzo Albacete through a selection of his teachings and homilies. “What do you want for yourself, not only of this week, but of your life? Your life is human. What do you want so that you can have some satisfaction, for howev...