Stories - 2024

Cristiano Ferrario, an oncologist at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, with a patient

The care for life: "I don't detach"

WorldAnna Leonardi

Cristiano Ferrario is an oncologist in Montréal, in Canada, where the law allows euthanasia. In the midst of diagnoses and treatments, the discovery of “a trust that sets people free even in illness.” His story in the April issue of Traces.

Andrea Aziani with María Luisa

Andrea's truth

WorldMaría Luisa Vásquez Castañeda

A portrait of the Servant of God Andrea Aziani, the Memor Domini missionary in Peru who died in 2008, by a former student and friend from Lima.

A disabled person on the beach at Punta Marina Terme (Ravenna)

The wooden cross by the sea

WorldGiovanni Bucchi

A bathing establishment for the severely disabled on the Ravenna coastline. Born from the story of Dario and Debora and many friends, also from ALS and his death.

Pancho and Alexander

Ecuador: "We are made for great things"

WorldMaria Acqua Simi

One of the most complex countries in Latin America besieged by drugs, violence and an economic crisis. But where hope never stops nourishing the hearts of many. The stories of Isabel Maria, Pancho and Alexander.

Fr. Lukasz Popko

Lukasz Popko: If God questions you

EncountersStefano Filippi

The Bible as a place of questions and not precepts: two scholars discuss and discover what the secret for true dialogue is. One of the two protagonists, the Polish Dominican Fr. Popko, speaks about the book in the March issue of Tracce.

Anna, Giacomo and little Marco

"The promise that God has kept"

WorldMaria Acqua Simi

Anna and Giacomo got married in 2010 but children did not come. Today they tell their story, a difficult path that led them to adoption. From the March issue of Tracce.

A concert by the Magnificat School Orchestra

Holy Land: To the tune of the Magnificat

WorldMaria Acqua Simi

An internationally renowned music school in the heart of the Old City of Jerusalem. A unique experience of welcoming, of dialogue, which speaks of a possible peace. Its director, Fr. Alberto Joan Pari, speaks.