"If I did not know You, not even my breath would have any meaning.” Sandra Sabattini, the girl from Rimini and friend of Fr. Oreste Benzi, will be beatified on 24th October. There was nothing “heroic” about her 23 years of life if not a great love.
The GS Beginning Day as recounted by an ex-GS student. “I looked at the young people sitting in front of me. Then, like now, in a room full of faces and random stories, Someone happens to be present.”
Luigi Amicone, journalist, writer, a great friend of Fr. Giussani, has passed away. We publish the letter that Julián Carrón has sent to his family.
The words of the President of the Fraternity of CL at the funeral of Pier Alberto, one of Fr. Giussani's greatest friends, who died on 15 September.
From a talk by Luigi Giussani at the Spiritual Exercises for University Students of Communion and Liberation (Riva del Garda, December 5, 1976), re-proposed at the CL Beginning Day on September 25, 2021.
Pope Francis' address during the moment of reflection for the opening of the synod. "Enabling everyone to participate is an essential ecclesial duty!"
The text of the Beginning Day of the Adults and University Students of Communion and Liberation. By video link, September 25, 2021.
We publish the statement of the Holy See on the change of leadership of the Association with the appointment of the Archbishop of Taranto.
The Pope's address to the participants in the meeting of lay associations, ecclesial movements and new communities, organized by the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life.
Meeting with the authorities and civil society: "The salt of the faith acts not by reacting in worldly terms, by engaging in culture wars, but by quietly and humbly sowing the seeds of God’s kingdom, especially by the witness of charity, of love."
Julián Carrón's message upon the death of Pier Alberto Bertazzi, one of Fr. Giussani's greatest friends. As a young university student, he was among those who first used the name that ended up becoming the name of our movement.
The Pope address to bishops, priests and the religious. "May the proclamation of the Gospel be liberating, never oppressive. And may the Church be a sign of freedom and welcome!"
Pope Francis' Apostolic journey to Budapest, on the occasion of the concluding Holy Mass of the 52nd International Eucharistic congress, and to Slovakia. Francis' homily after his meetings with bishops and religious men of other confessions.
Twenty years since the attack on the Twin Towers. The world would never be the same again. But how to start over? The words of Fr. Giussani from the days following the attack, taken from his biography.
On September 12, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński, the Polish Primate of the "Millennium", will be beatified. His life was a bulwark of Christianity in the face of totalitarianism. From the September issue of Tracce.
Javier Prades’ speech on the title of this year's Meeting. Rimini, August 21, 2021.
A day at the Rimini Meeting as recounted by a young teacher. Listening to music by Marracash, the exhibition on TV series, the words of the neurolinguist Moro and those of Pasolini addressed to Gennariello.
The final statement of the 42nd Meeting for Friendship Among Peoples and the title of the next edition to be held in Rimini from 20 to 25 August 2022.
With Fernando De Haro, Journalist; Wael Farouq, Professor of Arabic language and literature at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan. Introduced by Roberto Fontolan, manager of International Center of Comunione e Liberazione.
The third part of a cycle of video interviews produced by the magazine Traces at the Rimini Meeting: writer and director Elisa Fuksas takes us along the path of her work and research.
The dialogue with Cristina Benetti, a nurse in Canada; Vincent Nagle, priest; Patrick Vinay, a doctor in Montreal. Introduced by Marco Maltoni, Director of the Palliative Care Unit of Forlì, and Elvira Parravicini, a neonatologist in New York.