Macerata-Loreto. Carrón: "Life as vocation"
Current EventsOn the eve of the 42nd Pilgrimage, which this year will be in the form of a pilgrimage on the evening of June 13, the message of the President of the Fraternity of CL.
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Answer to powerlessness is not show of power, but presence
Current EventsThe death of George Floyd, the protests and debates about racism. What is in the foreground, however, is a great "need to live, to breathe". A contribution from catholicphilly.com
Mozambique: fairy tales on the telephone
Current EventsIsabel lives in a Maputo slum and is at home because of lockdown. Her only connection to her school are Misnia's calls, who reads stories to her. An initiative of AVSI that, in addition to health awareness, tries to fill the educational void.
Albania: Impossible gratitude, between Covid and the rubble
Current EventsFirst an earthquake in the autumn, then the pandemic. Yet, in a country already plagued by poverty and economic hardship, hope does not stop flourishing.
Fr. Giussani’s lesson: God has created us for joy
Current EventsFrom Corriere della Sera, an excerpt from the preface to the fourth volume of the series Cristianesimo alla prova [Christianity put to the test], a collection of lessons and dialogues by Fr. Giussani at the Fraternity Exercises of CL.
Kenya: The horizon is beyond the village
Current EventsLockdown in Nairobi and a nationwide curfew. The fruits of so many years of work that has set a people back in motion within their territory. The first in a series of contributions about the Coronavirus emergency from the areas in which AVSI operates.
Enzo Piccinini: Nulla Osta received to initiate the cause of beatification
Current EventsErio Castellucci, Archbishop of Modena, made the announcement during Mass for the anniversary of death of the surgeon from Modena. The communication, which came from the Vatican, initiates the first phase of the process that will take place in his diocese
Out of torpor: The dialogue between Zuppi and Carrón
Current EventsIn a meeting about the pandemic, the Archbishop of Bologna spoke about himself and how he has been experiencing the health emergency. A dialogue with two voices - different and consonant - in the company of Abbé Pierre, Paul Claudel and Etty Hillesum.
The reawakening of our humanity and the power of testimony
Current Events"In the encounter there are no rules, only humanity." Anthropologist Mikel Azurmendi reads, in Carrón's ebook, the re-proposal of the experience of the first Christians, necessary during this lockdown period. His article from paginasdigital.es.
Coronavirus and "the fragrance of the event"
Current EventsThe pandemic and self-awareness. The dialogue, organized by Bicocca University of Milan, between psychotherapists Fabrizio Asioli and Giovanni Stanghellini, and Julián Carrón. Three different but consonant ways of describing what is happening to us.
"What saves us from nothingness?"
Current EventsThe introduction of the text that Julián Carrón is preparing on the topic "What saves us from nothingness?"
Carrón: "Let us not deflect the impact with reality"
Current EventsHow do you conquer fear? What contribution can Christians make? What challenge does this pandemic pose to faith? The president of the Fraternity discusses the themes of his eBook "Reawakening Our Humanity” with korazym.org. Read the interview.
Carrón: Reawakening Our Humanity
Current EventsThe fragility of existence and the "bubble" in which we lived. Then, "an unforeseen and unforeseeable interruption of reality, wearing the face of the coronavirus." In this ebook, Carrón describes how this "dizzying time" offers us a great possibility.
Fr. Claudio Burgio: "Everything will be for the good”
Current EventsOn the outskirts of Milan, fifty young people from the Kayrós community are living in "cloistered" isolation. What does this mean for them? "In front of certain questions, slogans are not enough," says the founder of the community.
Latin America: "Like children before God”
Current Events"Why do we not sing together?" A group of friends “meet” online during the Coronavirus crisis “to share, from wherever we are, a treasure.”
Music, Beauty and David’s eyes
Current EventsDavid Horowitz, New York musician and composer, and part of the history of CL in the United States, died on Monday. In 1997, he spoke during the presentation of Fr. Giussani's The Religious Sense at the UN. A friend's memory of him.
The Holy Week booklet
Current EventsTexts and prayers that Fr. Giussani always proposed to help us live Easter.
Julián Carrón's message after his re-election
Current EventsOn Saturday, March 21, the Central Diaconia of the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation re-elected Carrón as President for a new term. Here is his letter.
Easter 2020: The CL videoposter
Current EventsThe images are taken from "The Gospel according to Matthew" by Pier Paolo Pasolini, the poet whose verses accompany the words pronounced by Fr. Giussani in St. Peter's Square in 1998.
Stanghellini: "An opportunity to become aware of ourselves”
Current EventsConfined within the walls of our homes, we find "a time favourable to thought". And the opportunity to ask ourselves what matters. A psychiatrist re-reads Carrón's letter to Corriere della Sera.
Livia Giussani: CL’s obituary
Current EventsFr. Giussani's sister has died. Here is Fr. Julián Carrón and Communion and Liberation’s message: "Intercede for us, together with your brother, in this very dramatic circumstance".