A detail of Pinturicchio's “Child Jesus of the Hands”

Christmas: a warmth that melts hardened hearts

Davide Prosperi writes to 'Corriere della Sera': With the mystery of the Incarnation, Destiny becomes a human companionship. For everyone
Erik Varden (© Archivo Fotográfico Universidad de Navarra / Wikimedia Commons)

“Christianity is not a utopia”

Europe and the peripheries, the unjust war in Ukraine, and peace that should never be taken for granted. Christmas in this era “that is post-secular, not post-Christian.” An interview with Norwegian Bishop Erik Varden on Il Foglio
Pope Francis, in 2015, opens the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican for the start of the Jubilee of Mercy (© Catholic Press Photo)

Christmas of Hope

The opening of the Holy Door for the beginning of the Jubilee, the Midnight Mass and all the liturgical celebrations presided over by Pope Francis
Padre Aldo Trento

Father Aldo, a great gift to the world

Fr. Aldo Trento, a priest of the St. Charles Fraternity who was a missionary in Paraguay for many in years, has died. The message of Davide Prosperi, President of the Fraternity of CL
mpression III (concert), oil on canvas, 1911 (©Wikimedia)

Kandinsky. The rhythm of color

80 years after his death, a portrait of the painter who went beyond the outward representation of reality to give form to the spiritual energy of things
Father Ibrahim Alsabagh, Parish Priest of Nazareth in the Basilica of the Annunciation

“God is with us even in the darkness”

The Christmas letter written by Father Ibrahim, for many years a parish priest in Aleppo, Syria, and now at the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth, to the readers of Traces.
Matteo Lancini, psychologist and psychotherapist

Matteo Lancini. Let’s not ask young people to be themselves our way

Parents and educators must learn to listen to children and students. Psychologist and psychotherapist Matteo Lancini discusses the CL flyer on the events in Paderno Dugnano