Editorials

Traces, no. 1, February 2024

EditorialsHallucinations

Artificial intelligence is at the center of the world, the protagonist of debates in every sphere. Even for the pope, who dedicated his Message for Peace to it, it is among the priorities for reflection, raising urgent questions about its impact, from the...

Traces, No. 6, December 2023

EditorialsHere, now

“No explosion, wherever it may resound, over the earth, under the earth, or in the boundless spaces of the cosmos, can ever deafen the heart of those who have heard these electrifying words of the Gospel: ‘The Word became flesh.’” The man who wrote these...

Traces, no. 5, October 2023

EditorialsThe test

"Faith makes me conceive and mobilize my relationship with the things that interest me in a different way, and so a different experience of humanity is created, and this is the test of faith.” Giussani spoke thus to the Movement’s university students...

Traces, no. 4, August 2023

EditorialsLogical at all costs

This issue looks at Fr. Giussani’s bold realism: “It is not realistic for a person to live without this openness to the impossible. As it says in The Religious Sense, the reality of the human person is a relationship with the infinite. The infinite or the...

Traces, no. 3, June 2023

EditorialsThe mark

Just a few syllables. “And who am I?” Leopardi’s brief and boundless verse voices one of the fundamental questions of human life, in which Fr. Giussani identifies the “heart” of the human person, the ultimate, structural material of which we are made. It...

Traces, no. 2, April 2023

EditorialsThe law of existence

To those who suffer, God does not provide arguments which explain everything; rather, His response is that of an accompanying presence.” In the CL Easter poster, the pope tells us that “God Himself wishes to share this path with us,” in the scandalously...

Traces, No. 1, February 2023

EditorialsFaithful friend of the Bridegroom

Pope Francis’s homily at the funeral of Benedict XVI, Saint Peter’s Square, January 5, 2023 “Father, into your hands I commend my spirit” (Lk 23:46). These were the final words spoken by the Lord on the cross; his last breath, as it were, which summed...

Traces, No. 6, December 2022

EditorialsThe war in Ukraine and the "prophecy for peace"

"I invite you to accompany me in the prophecy for peace¬–Christ, Lord of peace! The increasingly violent and belligerent world really frightens me; I tell you truly, it frightens me" (Francis, Audience with Communion and Liberation, October 15, 2022). We...

Traces, no. 5, October 2022

EditorialsNow

“The present moment, from then on, was no longer banal for me.” This was the newness introduced in a watershed moment in the life of Luigi Giussani in his first year of high school, when what he called "the beautiful day” happened. His story of that day...

Traces, No. 4, August 2022

EditorialsRoom for breathing freely

They’re the most alive thing I’ve ever encountered,” says Luis from Puerto Rico, speaking of friends he’d met at his university. This issue offers the testimonies of university students in various parts of the world who are reliving “the origin of...

Traces, No. 3, June 2022

EditorialsUnderground

During a recent interview, the Belarusian Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich, reflecting on the war, asked herself what sparked the series of events that led up to this point; that is, what happened to the great “Russian soul,” to the incredible...

Traces, No. 2, April 2022

EditorialsUnassailable

The conflict in Ukraine has awakened a distress that has all the weight of history and of the future, with its rupture of the global order and of the tragic illusion that it can be recreated at the expense of the absolute concreteness of the person. What...

Traces No. 1, February 2022

EditorialsA hundred times greater

“Christ ‘bumped into’ my life, my life ‘bumped into’ Christ, precisely so that I should learn to understand that He is the central point of everything, of the whole of my life. Christ is the life of my life: in Him is summed up all that I would desire,...

Traces N.8, December 2021

EditorialsEyes that see

The December issue opens with the documents that have marked the different steps undertaken in recent weeks, following the resignation of Fr. Julián Carrón from his position as President of the Fraternity of CL: a choice made "to help the change of...

Traces N.7, October 2021

EditorialsPriceless

Those who saw the exhibit at the Meeting of Rimini on secularization, which we cover at the beginning of this issue, saw the images of churches transformed into restaurants, museums, or pools, and heard the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor say that for...

Traces, N.6, July/August 2021

EditorialsWhat remains?

The present is the only thing we have. The paradox is that precisely because we have it, we feel this inexhaustible tension to try to live it, to be present in the present. It is never entirely full and for this reason it catalyzes in us a continual...

Traces, N.5, May 2021

EditorialsHuman affairs

We do not want to look at the family and its inner workings under a microscope, but rather to open a window onto the horizon that allows it to breathe. The family, fragile and irreplaceable. Today, the attempt to “protect human affairs from their frailty”...

Traces N.4, April 2021

EditorialsThe vaccine

How do we react in situations that are not right?” Pope Francis asked at a certain point during his visit to Iraq. “In the face of adversity, there are always two temptations,” he said, “running away or getting angry,” neither of which achieves anything....

Traces N.3, March 2021

EditorialsGenerated right now

A year after the pandemic began, the data about how children and teens are suffering is alarming. And what would happen if we saw the same data about adults? We would see that today’s denialism is reducing the problem of education to classrooms and...

Traces N.2, February 2021

EditorialsBrothers because we are sons

"The miracle that floors the world is when people who are strangers treat one another as brothers.” The title on the cover of this issue refers to these words, spoken by Fr. Luigi Giussani (the anniversary of whose death sixteen years ago is this month,...

Traces N.1, January 2021

EditorialsHope is based only on a present reality

“Hope is a certainty about the future based on a present reality.” Today, can anyone say something so solid without being considered naive or shameless? Read one by one, these words of Fr. Giussani’s are a ray of light in a dense fog. They greet us at the...