Journey to Gulu New Signs for Hope
Current EventsHunger and disease, guerilla warfare and homelessness do not have the final say in a community marked by the clear intervention of Providence.
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Doctor Corti’s Good Fight
Current EventsIn 1961, he set out for Africa. In Gulu, he sustained a missionary hospital, St. Mary’s Lacor Hospital, which is a kind of miracle in the poverty of this African country.
At the Beginning of the Beginning
Current EventsIn Washington DC, students and professors came together to work on Fr Giussani's text, Recognizing Christ. Msgr Lorenzo Albacete, with his characteristic combination of wit, aplomb, and deep fellowship, gave the following closing synthesis.
Cross and Resurrection- Like Two Thousand Years Ago.
Current EventsWay of the Cross The memory of Christ’s Passion through the streets of the world The Pope’s message. The outstanding testimony of the Archbishop of Washington, DC.
Affinity and Shared Fascination with a Human Proposal
Current EventsIn Washington, the possibility of redesigning the face of education. A challenge taken up by the participants with a sense of commitment.
Tillman: on Newman and Giussani. Tradition, Freedom, and Friendship.
Current EventsThe theme of experience catalyzed an entire work session. The highlight was a desire for an objective anchor, opposing any subjectivist reduction.
The Primacy of Reality and the Experience of Risk
Current EventsExcerpts from the talk (delivered via videoconference) by Archbishop Angelo Scola, Patriarch of Venice, at the conference on education held in Washington, DC.
Hauerwas, a Protestant: “I Would Like to Have Said Those Things Myself”
Current EventsFifty teachers from North American universities measured themselves against Fr Giussani’s educational proposal.
Yes, It Is Worth the Risk. An Experience Offered.
Current EventsGeorgetown University in Washington, DC, hosted on April 4th-5th,the conference on The Risk of Education. A report on two days of dialogue among fifty university professors.
Priests in Stars and Stripes
Current Events27 American priests gathered for the first CL Priests’ Retreat, on Enders Island, off the coast of Connecticut. They confronted the acknowledgement that they are sons to become fathers. The discovery of a new perspective of faith.
Letter from Prison
Current EventsWhat is freedom? This is the question that animated the GS winter vacation in America. Joshua, an inmate in a North Carolina prison, virtually participated in the vacation by writing a long letter that moved the students.
An Original–and Positive–Contribution
Current EventsThe starting point for a Christian judgment on the current war in Iraq: peace as the fruit of Christ’s presence in history, the only road for reaching the ideals of peace and justice that have always sustained the American dream.
Education and Mission
ChurchCardinal George met the North American Responsibles of CL during the Diakonia in mid-January. His encounter with the Movement, Fr Giussani’s books, and faith in America: “Your communion is what makes people free.”
It Happens in Cuba
Current EventsThe first congress on bioethics in Havana, promoted by the John Paul II Center, included a presentation of Fr. Giussani's The Religious Sense. Before an audience of 200 people, outstanding Cuban figures discussed elementary experience, freedom an
Recounting Facts
CultureHis stories tell of little daily events. His characters are ordinary people. And yet emerging from their miserable affairs is beauty and the pity that lifts men above their baseness.
The Visit of Msgr Cordes
Current EventsThe trip to Uganda made by the Pope’s “Minister of Charity.” The Cor Unum project with AVSI and esteem for the work of the Movement.
Young Entrepreneurs Grow Up
Current EventsKenya St Kizito’s: Teaching a trade, giving the foundations for opening a business, but above all, accompanying young people in rediscovering their dignity, because “it is not enough to teach someone how to fish, you have to share why one fishes.”
Forgotten Africa?
Current EventsFirst part of a journey into Africa's center. The disheartening macroeconomic analyses, the developmental crisis, and the lack of globalization. The Church's reality and the testimonies of a presence that shares and builds. A positive example for all.