Taipei: We are the Church
Current EventsRaphaella Wang, Jen-Chuan, Lucy, Rebecca Tsai and Kun-Li. Some "portraits" from the CL community in Taiwan that are included in the exhibition for the presentation of the Chinese edition of Why the Church.
Current Events - 2022
Towards the Meeting: what's new and how to get involved
Current EventsThe topics, the faces, the App to book exhibitions and meeting, the pavilion for kids and sports... A month to go until the Rimini event, we take stock of the new edition with the director, Emmanuele Forlani.
Loreto 2022: Message from Davide Prosperi
Current EventsThe annual pilgrimage to Czestochowa for high school graduates, university near and new graduates of CL is replaced this year by a day at the Basilica of the Holy House on July 19. Here are the Davide Prosperi's words to the young people taking part.
Towards the Meeting: God needs men
Current Events"Christianity was not born to found a religion; it was born as a passion for man." Fr. Giussani's speech at the 1985 Rimini Meeting, from which the title of the 2022 edition is taken: "A passion for man."
A surge of life
Current EventsA preview of the interview with Davide Prosperi in Città Nuova. The full text will appear shortly.
Rimini: A story of friendship for peace
Current EventsGiovanni Paolo Ramonda, leader of the Pope John XXIII Community, and the President of the Fraternity of CL, Davide Prosperi, dialogued about the book "Against War" by Pope Francis.
"Movements and new communities", formation on charisms
Current EventsThe contribution of the President of the fraternity of CL at the theological conference held June 20th at the Pontifical Lateran University, which helps to “look more deeply at what co-essentiality between charism and institution means.”
Vacations, the time of freedom
Current Events“Anticipation of vacation is evidence of the will to live; for just this reason it must not be ‘vacation’ from oneself. Then summer will not be an interruption or a postponement of taking life seriously.” (June 5, 1964)
"Your 'Yes' that is so mysterious and shining"
Current EventsDavide Prosperi's message for the ordinations of the Fraternity of St. Charles. "Christ offers us a life that does not die in eternity! Thus life is Him What else can attract us if not this?"
North America: "Because this is where youth lives”
Current EventsThe Texas massacre, the media storm, the suffering of young people, and the hundred college students vacationing on the slopes of Longs Peak, Colorado. A professor speaks of the "hope in this world" that he saw in them.
"Christ, the Life of life"
Current EventsThe introduction of the Spiritual Exercises of the Fraternity of CL, preached by Fr. Mauro-Giuseppe Lepori.
Enzo Piccinini: "A humanity that lets the Glory of Christ shine through”
Current EventsThe homily of Monsignor Filippo Santoro, Archbishop of Taranto, during mass for the twenty-third anniversary of the death of Enzo Piccinini on May 29.
The beginning of the otherwise impossible unity
Current EventsThe message of Davide Prosperi, President of the Fraternity of CL, on the occasion of the Macerata˗Loreto Pilgrimage, June 11, 2022.
Fraternity: Contributions from the Exercises
Current EventsFrom Mozambique to Cambridge, stories and testimonies from the Spiritual Exercises of the Fraternity of CL, entitled: "Christ, Life of Life," and followed by communities in over ninety nations.
Message on the death of Fr. João Seabra
Current EventsThe priest who has long been leader of CL in Portugal died on June 3. Here follow the words of Davide Prosperi, President of the Fraternity, to our Portuguese friends:
"Keep up the good work, continue in this embrace"
Current EventsSix hundred adults and children from the Families for Hospitality Association met in St. Peter's Square in Rome, on May 18, for an Audience on the occasion of the Association's 40th anniversary.
Canada: "My drawings for my Ukraine"
Current EventsIvanka is an illustrator in Canada, and is of Ukrainian descent. In the face of war, she chose to help her people by selling her work "to bring attention to the reality of hope" and that "evil doesn’t have the last word."
No war is stronger than the victory of Christ
Current Events"From Easter flows a river of reconciliation between men, Churches and peoples.” The contribution of Fr. Mauro-Giuseppe Lepori, Abbot General of the Cistercians (from ilsussidiario.net).
Santoro: "To be artisans of fraternity and peace”
Current EventsEntrusting ourselves to Mary, the Pope's teaching, and our task in the face of the conflict in Ukraine. The letter of the Archbishop of Taranto from the newspaper "Avvenire".
The Holy Week Booklet
Current EventsThe texts and prayers that Fr. Giussani always proposed as an aid to live the Easter period.
“The great teaching Fr. Giussani gives us is to bring God back into daily life”
Current EventsInterview with Davide Prosperi, president of the Fraternity of CL, on the Centenary of the Founder’s birth. From the magazine omnesmag.com