In this book, Julián Carrón, the president of the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation, reflects on this dizzying time in which nothingness looms so powerfully over everyone’s life, making us doubt whether life is positive and question the ultimate subs...
Edited by Alberto Savorana. In the course of just a few weeks, the health emergency caused by COVID-19 has become a shared experience. All of us, in different ways, have felt the challenge. Paradoxically, the state of isolation in which we find ourselv...
A Roman soldier, Marcellus, wins Christ's robe as a gambling prize. He then sets forth on a quest to find the truth about the Nazarene's robe-a quest that reaches to the very roots and heart of Christianity and is set against the vividly limned background...
Continuing his popular series of novels about saints of the Church, de Wohl devotes his considerable talents to an interpretation of one of the most unusual women of all time, Saint Catherine of Siena. The daughter of a prosperous dyer in fourteenth-centu...
Venerable Cardinal Francis-Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan spent thirteen years in communist prisons in his home country of Vietnam. A priest of extraordinary faith and courage, he still remained in contact with the faithful under his care by sending out secret m...
(The book is also available for purchase through Barnes and Noble, itacalibri, and through the National office in NY by writing to communionandliberation@clhac.com) Generating Traces in the History of the World is a synthesis of Monsignor Luigi Giussan...
Should we battle a plural and relativistic society by raising barriers and walls, or should we accept the opportunity to announce the Gospel in a new way? This is the challenge Christians are facing today. In an extended interview with Vatican expert A...
Monsignor Luigi Giussani (1922-2005) was the founder of the Catholic lay movement Communion and Liberation in Italy, which has hundreds of thousands of adherents around the globe. In The Life of Luigi Giussani Alberto Savorana, who spent an important part...
In 2005, Father Julián Carrón became the leader of the global ecclesial movement Communion and Liberation, following the death of the movement’s founder, Father Luigi Giussani. Disarming Beauty is the English translation of an engaging and thought-provoki...
Translated by Mariangela Sullivan Luigi Giussani, a high school religion teacher throughout the 1950s and 1960s, grounded his teachings in the vast body of experience to be found in Christianity's two-thousand-year history. He told his students, “I'm n...
"Who better than Fr. Giussani has shown us the meaning of living with this Presence in our gaze? And what's better than hearing him tell us about the nature of the charism and transport us once again--as he often did--back to the center, Christ?" Juliá...
The gaze, voice, and words of Luigi Giussani, founder of Communion and Liberation, ten years after his passing. An excellent documentary in memory of a great protagonist of our time, Fr. Luigi Giussani, on the tenth anniversary of his death. Photograp...
On Saturday, March 7, 2015, on occasion of the 60th anniversary of the birth of Communion and Liberation and the 10th anniversary of Fr. Luigi Giussani's passing, the Holy Father Pope Francis encountered the Movement in an audience in St. Peter's Square. ...
For the mediaeval world, the permanence of Christ in history was a fact – Christ was really a presence. These Lauds are the result of a simplicity, as a virtue, that accepted the evidence of the wonder That Man aroused. The wonder He aroused was like a p...
What an impact of beauty and truth these have songs in us! What intense, living devotion they provoke in us. They move us to sincere and profound piety. The Philippine pietas is the only true popular pietas of the sixteenth century. St. Philip Neri was ab...
In the middle ages when they really did know how to sing, the highest musical expression was a melody made up of “a-a-a-a” that was called “Jubilus” (it is still preserved in some noble museums of the territory around Milan, but the Milanese priests no lo...
On Holy Saturday, April 11, 2020, Fr. Pigi Banna and Fr. Julián Carrón held a video link meeting from all over Italy, with members of Gioventù Studentesca. Notes from their contributions.
On February 12, 2020, in Milan, a meeting was held with Fr. Julián Carrón and Francesco Barberis, with members of Gioventù Studentesca. Students from more than eighty cities in Italy, Switzerland, Portugal and the Czech Republic also connected to the meet...
On 6 October, 2019, almost two thousand high school students from Lombardy met for the Beginning of the Year Day for Gioventù Studentesca. The title of the day was: "Who Is This Man?". The meeting with Fr. Carrón and Francesco Barberis took place in the...
The GS Easter Triduum took place on April 18-20, 2019, in Rimini. The title of the Triduum was, "What Can Withstand the Test of Time?" The lessons were guided by Fr. Pierluigi Banna and saw about 6,000 students from Italy and abroad in attendance.
About sixty years from the its first edition--curated by GS and published in Milan in 1961--this short text preserves its valuable content and method.
The CLU Spiritual Exercises occurred in Rimini on December 7-9, 2012. Lessons were lead by Julián Carrón, president of the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation.
