Tireless seeker of the essence
CultureThe great writer Colum McCann was a guest speaker at this year's Meeting. Stories like those of Israeli Rami and Palestinian Bassam “help us tell the story of light even in the darkness of contradictions."
The great writer Colum McCann was a guest speaker at this year's Meeting. Stories like those of Israeli Rami and Palestinian Bassam “help us tell the story of light even in the darkness of contradictions."
An economy at the service of the common good, the educational and cultural challenge, the testimonies of those who seek peace even where conflicts rage. Bernhard Scholz speaks about the 2024 edition of the Meeting.
The absence of the father, the scandal of racial hatred, questions about evil, and the structural need for God: A portrait one hundred years from his birth of the American writer James Baldwin, one of the most voice of his era. From August Traces
The magazine of the movement is turning fifty and will be celebrated at the Rimini Meeting with a dedicated booth and a series of live meetings with friends and witnesses of its history. And with all its readers
The mystery of the human and their search for the essence are the threads that unite the exhibitions in Rimini from August 20 to 25. Alessandra Vitez presents contents and itineraries of the 2024 edition.
From Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt's journey to the Holy Land to St. Francis, art films, Bach, a Music Contest... Artistic director Otello Cenci discusses the program that will animate the Rimini Meeting this year.
If life is totally given, even a person deprived of everything can never be a slave to any lie. The relevance of the lesson of Aleksandr Solženicyn quoted by Fr. Giussani in the eighth chapter of The Religious Sense.
In the June issue of Traces, a dialogue with theologian Javier Prades on the recent Vatican Declaration: “A judgment on the present and a meeting point for those who share the value of the person proposed by the church.”
Notes from the speech by Davide Prosperi, President of the Fraternity of CL, at the assembly of the Association of Italian Cultural Centers ((Milan, May 18, 2024)
The first edition of the Forum Paris, a ‘meeting’ that was born from the spark of the “prophecy for peace”, to the surprise of the Pope's greeting for the event. Art, dialogues on current events, and the desire to encounter everyone.
Fr. Giussani's doctoral thesis dedicated to the American theologian. An opportunity to empathize with his vibrant ecumenical passion, and with that "Christian realism" that marked his thought. From the May issue of Tracce.
The Virgin who suffers for all, painted on a corner of the dividing wall in Bethlehem, where, for years, the Rosary has been recited every Friday. The work's author, iconographer Ian Knowles, speaks about it in the May issues of Tracce.
The Holy See pavilion, "With My Own Eyes," opens in Venice. A human and artistic journey through the Giudecca Women's Prison, born from the encounter between several great artists and the female inmates.
The artistic movement of Manet, Monet, Cézanne and Renoir turns 150 years old. From the exhibition on the Boulevard de Capucines in Paris to painting gatherings "en plein air" in Argenteuil. A brief history of a revolution made up of awe and color.
Jesus bursts into the closed room overcoming the apostles' fear: this is how Duccio di Buoninsegna depicts the Risen One. From the "Maestà" of Siena Cathedral, the image on the CL Easter poster.
The Pope had recommended his book Little Brother, dedicated to the drama of migrants. Amets Arzallus Antia was among the speakers at the recent New York Encounter. We interviewed him.
'Making peace' and reconciling with the contemporary art world. A path that the Holy See took more than fifty years ago with Paul VI, and which will take Pope Francis to the Lagoon on April 26.
In his songs he quotes Flannery O'Connor, he is a believer but does not want to "impose a religious content on anything I do" because the important thing is that "faith lives." A portrait of a great uncategorizable American singer-songwriter.
Still lifes, but which enclose the hand of the Creator in their 'being'. Giovanni Testori's "Two apples" and the deep connection with the works of Cézanne and Giacometti.