"Trust the feel of what nubbed treasure your hands have known”
CultureThe Irish Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney died ten years ago. A Virgil in an age of uncertainty, recounted in the December issue of Tracce.
News - 2023
Benedict XVI: The decisive direction
ChurchOne year after his death, we remember Joseph Ratzinger and his deep bond with Saint Augustine, centred on the theme of conversion, only possible if one loves and recognizes oneself as loved.
AVSI Tents: Peace can also flourish in Lebanon
Current EventsJihane Rahal, an AVSI worker in Lebanon, speaks of the difficulties of a nation always on the brink of crisis. And of a path of good that "challenges us with all our humanity."
Pope Francis: A joy that is “great” because it makes us "great"
Church"For today, all of us, with all our shortcomings, embrace the sure promise of an unprecedented gift: the hope of being born for heaven." The "Urbi et Orbi" blessing (St Peter's Basilica, December 25, 2023)
Christmas. Love changes history
Current EventsPope Francis' homily at the Christmas Vigil Mass. St. Peter's Basilica, 24 December 2023.
Young people and Christmas: an ideal to bet on
Current Events"The ashes of our dreams are invested by the only ideal that withstands the impact of evil and time: God himself has come to meet us." Davide Prosperi's letter to Corriere della Sera.
Avsi tents. Syria: Educating to rebuild
Current EventsIn the country tried by thirteen years of war, amid cholera epidemics and earthquakes, the testimony of those working not to leave children, widows and the elderly alone. From Aleppo, Hadi Kobeissi speaks.
Rimini: the courage to live like this
ChurchThe CLU Spiritual Exercises as experienced by a graduate student. The songs, the prayer, the lessons... Gestures already seen many times, yet a provocation to abandon one's "silent bourgeois attitude," to reawaken the wonder of the beginning.
That unassailable “grace”
Current EventsWhat are the Christians of Gaza experiencing? In Traces, Fr. Gabriel Romanelli, the parish priest of the one Catholic church in Gaza, speaks about their lives today, from their hospitality to the displaced to the daily companionship of the Pope.
Avsi Tents: Good generates good in Haiti too
Current EventsThe fundraising campaign has been supporting the NGO's activities around the world for years, like in Haiti, as recounted by Jessica Granito, an AVSI worker on the since 2017.
If peace has a face
Current EventsFlorence, Habiba, the children of Marjayoun... And a gesture that educates in charity, against addiction. Nine projects speak of how it is possible to build a new world. AVSI's Tents campaign, recounted in the December issue of Tracce.
Assisi: with new eyes
ChurchQuestions about pain, being parents, issues at work... And the surprise of a faith that "informs life" in a lived communion. The meeting of over four hundred young people from CL
The caress of the Child Jesus
CultureThe small hand resting on the head of one of the Magi bowed down to adore him. This is the heart of the image chosen this year for the Communion and Liberation Christmas poster.
Christmas 2023: The poster
Current EventsThe words of Pope Francis and Fr. Giussani, this year accompanied by the "Adoration of the Magi", a 14th century fresco in the Sacro Speco Monastery in Subiaco. The video-poster is also available
What unites
ChurchVatican diplomacy faces the test of a “third world war fought in piecemeal.” The task of Christians and the radical crisis of trust. In the December issue of Traces, a dialogue with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State of the Holy See.
What future for the Holy Land?
Current EventsFr. David Neuhaus, a Jesuit scholar based in Jerusalem, explores the origin of the ‘two-state’ solution, testifying to the preciousness of the Christian presence in the region.
Meeting Lisboa: the enchantment of hope
Current EventsArtificial intelligence, Péguy's conversion, working in the 21st century, Pessoa's infinity, Andrea Mandelli's spring, the search for goodness inside the Gulag... Two days to embrace everything in the Portuguese capital, November 11-12.
Trust in the other
Current EventsWhat does it mean to love? This is the most urgent question that recent events have provoked, especially in young people. And which calls on all adults. From "Repubblica", the letter of Matteo Severgnini, responsible of GS.
Jon Fosse: In the hands of the other
CultureThe 2023 Nobel Prize winner for Literature is a Norwegian writer who lives in the royal palace, writes without periods and is convinced that “everything leads to God”. That is why “religion and art go together”. From the November issue of Tracce.
Middle East: "How much light does that little light emanate"
ChurchA troubled history still today, victims of humiliation and persecution. But which hides no signs of peace, dialogue and hope, while the nearby Holy Land burns. Chaldean Cardinal Sako talks about the Christian presence in Kurdistan and Iraq.
Pope Francis: "God chooses one in order to love everyone"
ChurchIn the Gospel "there is a 'humanizing power', a fulfilment of life that is destined for every man and woman, because Christ was born, died, and rose again for everyone." The General Audience of Wednesday, 22 November.