"Adhere to Christ, build the church"
Current EventsAn 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)]
Current Events - 2024
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.”
Kenya: The uprisings and the good we seek
Current EventsThe 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.
Prosperi: "Faith, a new gaze at the world"
Current EventsThe life of the movement and key steps taken in recent years, including the relationship with politics and culture. The President of the Fraternity speaks in an interview with Corriere della Sera.
Giussani-Niebuhr: Generative thought, authentic sonship
Current EventsThe presentation of the book of Fr. Giussani’s doctoral thesis at the Catholic University in Milan. Speakers included the Archbishop of Milan, Mario Delpini, and rector emeritus, Lorenzo Ornaghi, among others.
Kazakhstan: Thirty years since the beginning
Current EventsThe CL community was born in the country in 1994. An unpredictable story, today more alive than ever, as testified by Lyubov. She speaks of ‘The Lighthouse’, an aid centre for young people with disabilities.
AVSI: Samia’s exercise books
Current EventsDistance support for 450 Iraqi children. A project of the Italian NGO that started in 2015 to help a people return to living after the Isis occupation.
Europe: For peace, an ideal horizon
Current EventsThe European project, the test of conflict, democratic deficit, and technological progress. The Compagnia delle Opere's contribution in view of the European Elections.
AVSI: How good is multiplied
Current EventsAVSI’s "distance support" activity is something that goes far beyond economic aid to children in developing countries. In Uganda, for example, it has been "building a world" since 1993.
The care for life: Without armor
Current EventsIn the April issue of Traces, Fr. Vincent Nagle, chaplain of the Maddalena Grassi Foundation, shares what he has discovered while accompanying sick patients.
"We are interested in happiness, and nothing less"
Current EventsPope Francis' message and Davide Prosperi's greeting to the young people of Gioventù Studentesca gathered in Rimini from 28 to 30 March for the Easter Triduum.
Easter 2024. The CL poster
Current EventsThis year, the words of Pope Francis and Fr. Giussani are accompanied by Duccio di Buoninsegna's "The Appearance of Christ behind closed doors".
Navalny: a rose is forever
Current EventsWhat happened in Russia on February 16 reopened a wound that we were getting used to. And it reminded everyone again that “nothing exists without freedom.” After the death of the opposition leader, here is the provocation that his life represents.
The machine of the world
Current EventsTechnological developments that revolutionize everyday reality: What becomes of the human after having delegated many functions to the computer? In February Traces, Miguel Benasayag, psychoanalyst and neurophysiologist, provides answers.
Artificial Intelligence and the sleeping soul
Current EventsThe New York Encounter 2024 kicks off on Friday, February 16. Among the protagonists at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Manhattan is an exhibition dedicated to AI. Curator Davide Bolchini explains what it touches upon and how it came about.
Prosperi: Communicating the beauty we encounter every day
Current EventsThe 46th National Day for Life celebrated by the Italian Church. The contribution of the President of the Fraternity in a special issue of the newspaper Avvenire on February 4.
"Me, a doctor, among the wounds of war"
Current EventsThe testimony of Alberto Reggiori, a surgeon on a mission on the Italian ship Vulcano to provide aid to Palestinians fleeing the Gaza Strip.
A Catholic university for Hong Kong
Current EventsThe recognition of St. Francis, the first of its kind, by the Government of the autonomous territory of South East China. It is news that is "to be welcomed with cautious optimism", as Father Bernardo Cervellera, PIME missionary, explains.
Bizzeti: "Let us not forget the Christians of Turkey"
Current EventsThe attack on a church in Istanbul on Sunday morning was just the latest event "in the escalation of violence in the region”, which does not only concern Ankara and its surroundings. The Apostolic Vicar of Anatolia speaks.
Holy Land: The law of forgiveness
Current EventsIsrael and Palestine, on either side stories of pain and death chase each other. Yet there are still those who manage to affirm a different logic, which starts with compassion and prayer. "In order not to stop believing that peace is possible."
Integral ecology. Against individualism
Current EventsThe environmental emergency is linked to migration, exploitation, unemployment, the struggle for resources that triggers conflict and generates poverty. Simona Beretta speaks about it in the January issue of Tracce.