C.D. Friedrich, Easter Morning, detail (c.1828-1835). Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid (© Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza/Scala, Florence).

Easter 2023: The videoposter

The words of Pope Francis and Fr. Giussani accompany a canvas by Caspar David Friedrich this year, "Easter Morning"
Munich (Photo: Daniel Sesslet/Unsplash)

Munich: "Our commitment (not alone) to peace"

Public moments of prayer, together with other movements, the local church and other friends. Munich also responds to the Pope’s invitation from October 15.
Fr. Luigi Giussani (Photo: Fraternità CL)

Fr. Giussani: "What is life? It is to be loved"

The founder of CL died on February 22, 2005. A video from the exhibition for the Centenary of his birth (Spiritual Exercises of CL University Students, December 9, 1995).
Silvia Simoncini

“For a love that I always had inside”

Silvia died at the age of 28 from cancer. She had got married just over a year ago. In between, she had begun helping sick women like herself. Here are the words of Fr. Ignacio Carbajosa during his homily at her funeral (Florence, March 1, 2023).
Pope Francis at the General Audience on February 15 (Vatican Media/Catholic Press Photo)

Pope Francis. Called to proclaim Christ

"The proclamation does not begin from us, but from the beauty of what we have received for free, without merit: meeting Jesus, knowing Him, discovering that we are loved and saved." Pope Francis' General Audience (Rome, February 15).
Fr. Giussani in Riccione in 1973 (Photo: Fraternity of CL)

Masses around the world

Celebrations for the 18th anniversary of Fr. Giussani's death and the 41st of the pontifical recognition of the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation.

The February issue of Traces

The february issue is out now, dedicated to Benedict XVI.
Iskenderun Cathedral after the earthquake (Photo: Antuan Ilgit SJ)

Turkey: "Amid the rubble, we are living stones"

The collapsed cathedral, the fear, the dead, taking in the displaced. And that mass celebrated with survivors of any religion.... From the city of Iskenderun, in the Diocese of Antioch, the account of Turkish Jesuit Fr. Antuan Ilgit
get-together Sydney

The Journey to Truth. Sharing our Experiences.

The Community of CL in Sydney proposes a get-together and discuss how the experiences lived in faith bring us closer to Truth.

The wound of Aleppo

One of the most devastating earthquakes in Middle Eastern history. Thousands killed and wounded, in an area already tried by years of war. Yet "some already know where to start again."