Current Events - 2024

Fr. Giussani during a meeting in 1983 (Photo: Fraternità CL/Federico Brunetti)

Fr. Giussani. A legacy for all

Current EventsPaola Ronconi

Fifteen years ago the website “Scritti di Luigi Giussani” went online, which collects nearly 5000 texts by the founder of CL in multiple languages. Today, Giussani would have turned 102.

Priscilla Achan at the G7 in Caserta

Priscilla, Fr. Giussani, and the G7

Current EventsMauro Giacomazzi*

The principal of Luigi Giussani Primary School in Kampala, Uganda at the G7 summit. Orphaned, she was supported by AVSI and now devotes herself to her students: “Education is walking together to discover the meaning of life.”

 Water distribution in Beirut (Photo: F.Volpi/Avsi)

Lebanon emergency: The AVSI campaign

Current EventsMaria Acqua Simi

A collection of aid has begun to help more than 1 million civilians fleeing the war. “Many of us workers have lost everything. But we will not stop standing by the most vulnerable.”

Among the rubble in Beirut after a bombing (Photo: Ansa/Epa/Wael Hamzeh)

Lebanon: “The young people’s lesson amid the missiles”

Current EventsMaria Acqua Simi

The war in Lebanon, hitting a population already on its knees due to the economic and social crisis after Covid and the port explosion in Beirut. Monsignor Jules Boutros, local leader of the Patriarchal Church of Antioch of the Syrians, speaks about it.

Katerina Gordeeva (Photo: Fraternità CL/Maria Acqua Simi)

“Beyond the threshold of pain, there is life"

Current EventsMaria Acqua Simi

Documenting the horror of war to know what is really happening. The life and efforts of Russian Catholic reporter and documentary filmmaker Katerina Gordeeva against her country’s collective amnesia about the conflict in Ukraine.

(Photo: Unsplash/Hannah Cauhepe)

Evil and the love that saves

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The Paderno Dugnano tragedy and the questions it opens: “The problem is not to educate them in a way of life, but to educate them to ask why we live and what we live for.” The Communion and Liberation flyer.

Kenya: The greatest revolution

Current EventsStefano Filippi

The youth protests and violence last June, a provocation that has raised many questions and a common judgement, in a flyer signed by the CL university students in Kenya.

This and the other images accompanying the article (reproduced here in some details) are part of Vasantha Yogananthan's special project Fleuve Fauve, made in 2016/17 photographing people and the seasons along the Loire (© Vasantha Yogananthan)

Education. All within a gaze

Current EventsFranco Nembrini and Matteo Severgnini

The crisis of an entire generation. The fear of adults. And the path to a “total” and “living” educational relationship. From the September issue of Tracce, notes from a dialogue with Franco Nembrini and Matteo Severgnini.

The hike during the CLU Equipe in La Thuile

CLU Equipe: No voice calls you like that

Current EventsCarlo Castrichini and Cecilia Pizzagalli

An encounter with Christ marks the beginning of a path that overcomes all loneliness. A discovery that began during the vacation and was taken up by the four hundred adults and young people from 16 countries around the world who gathered in La Thuile.

Working at the Pre-Meeting (Photo: Meeting Rimini)

Meeting 2024: The Pope's message

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“Today it is essential to stop and ask ourselves: is there something worth living and hoping for?” Holy Father Francis' words on the occasion of the XLV Meeting for Friendship Among Peoples (Rimini, August 20-25, 2024).

The meeting dedicated to the volunteers at the 2023 edition (Photo: Meeting Rimini)

Towards the Meeting: "What gives meaning to everything"

Current EventsMatteo Rigamonti

From volunteers to visitors who cross the threshold of the Rimini Fair: “Every time it is an opportunity to get to the bottom of a unique proposal aimed at everyone.” The general director of the Foundation, Emmanuele Forlani, talks about the Meeting.

A moment of the pilgrimage to Czestochowa (Photo: Tommaso Prinetti)

Czestochowa: A "yes" like Mary's

Current EventsSofia Polini

The pilgrimage to the Shrine of the Black Madonna as an experience of conversion and unity. Within the discovery that the goal of life is holiness, a gift to be asked for with a simple heart.

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Patriarch of Jerusalem of the Latins (Photo: Ansa/Vatican Media)

"A glimpse of light for the whole world"

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The appeal of the Patriarch of Jerusalem of the Latins, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, to prayer for peace in the Holy Land on the day of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary

The arrival at the Shrine during one of the past pilgrimages (Photo: Fraternity CL)

Częstochowa: the burst of freedom

Current EventsDavide Prosperi

Davide Prosperi's message to the high-school graduates, undergraduates and recent graduates of Communion and Liberation on pilgrimage to the Polish shrine.

Fr. Luigi Giussani (Photo: Archive Fraternity of CL)

"Adhere to Christ, build the church"

Current EventsDavide Prosperi

An excerpt from Davide Prosperi's Preface to the new book of Fr. Giussani, Una rivoluzione di sé. La vita come comunione (1968-1970)" [A Revolution of Self. Life as Communion (1968-1970)]

(Photo: Unsplash/Colin Moldenhauer)

Vacations, the time of freedom

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“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.”

The anti-government youth demonstrations in Kenya (Ansa/Epa/Daniel Iringu)

Kenya: The uprisings and the good we seek

Current EventsMaria Acqua Simi

The protests of young people, the desire for freedom and justice, and the work on the eighth chapter of The Religious Sense. Some friends from Nairobi speak of what sustains them as their country descends into chaos.