Over the Dinner Table: Where Science and Religion Meet
Culture"What can we know through science? What can we know through faith?" Dr. Massimo Robberto and Dr. Andrew White speak at GS's first PerspectiScope discussion.
News - 2005
A Question of Reason
Current Events"The Catholic affirmation of the ability of reason to grasp an intelligent design behind reality does not depend on the results of such a scientific method." Reprinted from the Italian magazine "Tempi," No. 29, 9/22/05.
The Dictatorship of Desires and the Experience of Truth
Current EventsA conversation between Msgr. Lorenzo Albacete and Dr. Joseph Weiler on relativism and skepticism, faith and tolerance, in America and Europe, a way out of slavery, a path to freeing the heart of contemporary man.
The Church Herself is a Movement
ChurchPope John Paul II outlines the importance of ecclesial movmenets for the life of the church and reminds us to “...not quench the Spirit, do not despise prophesying, but test everything and hold fast what is good”
Texts in Our Hands and Facts in Our Eyes
Current EventsThe CL responsibles for North America gathered in Florida. The newness of the Christian encounter reborns throughout the entire continent. Something that generates unity and hope in the solitude of American life.
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The Exemplary Experience of Two Schools in Kenya
SchoolIf you look at the statistics, Kenya seems to be well advanced as regards the spread of primary education. From 1963 to the present day, the number of primary schools has risen from 6,000 to 18,000.
The Risk of Education has been educating in Kampala
SchoolThanks to an AVSI project in Kampala, Uganda, every year since 2002, a course of formation called “The Risk of Education Training” has been organized.
In Lewis’ House Without Lewis
CultureAfter reading all of C.S. Lewis’s works, Walter Hooper was surprised by his invitation to visit and the ensuing friendship that solidified his position as Lewis’s posthumous secretary.
Surprised by Christian Friendship
CultureReflected in Lewis’s literary productions are his life experiences: the abandonment of Christianity to the point of embracing atheism; the encounter with Tolkien and Dyson; chats with friends in the Inklings club; and conversion.
Memory Babe
CultureThe author of "On the Road," a cult book for a generation of rebels. A dramatic life that ended in drugs and alcohol. But his pitiless analysis of American society was never satisfied with a degraded condition.
Meetings for a New Beginning
ChurchFrom September 7-11th, a group of Catholic and Protestant theologians from Europe, Canada and the United States, all sharing a passion for Christ and for His Church, met in Granada.
Christianity, a Continuous Adventure
CultureEnglish scholar Stratford Caldecott proposes rereading G.K. Chesterton in light of the encounter with Fr. Giussani, both of whom lived the faith as a gift.
Nairobi Is Back at Teaching
SchoolIn the heart of Africa, the project of a new school: A not-for-profit organization formed by some families who decided to become protagonists in the education of their children.
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New Air at the University
SchoolThe American university students sent some testimonies to the CL National Diaconia about their lives within their colleges. We publish some of them here.
Faith Is Given Us so that We Communicate It
ChurchThe text of Fr Giussani’s written contribution to the XXI plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for the Laity on “Rediscovering the True Face of the Parish.” Rome, November 24-28, 2004
The Terrible Boys of New York
CultureThe watershed in post-war art. Pollock, Rothko, Congdon and others revolutionized the relationship with works of art. “They began to consider canvas as an arena in which to act–no longer the support for a painting, but an event.”
The Cardinal and “the” Road
ChurchIn the Mexican capital, at a meeting on Fr Giussani’s book, Cardinal Rivera Carrera said, “This work has every right to belong in the classic literature on the Church.”