Giovanni Segantini, Kissing the Cross, 1881–82, Segantini Museum St. Moritz, deposit of the Otto Fischbacher Giovanni Segantini Foundation

The rebel and the cross

A child in his mother’s arms reaching out to kiss the cross: in this gesture “everything is positivity.” The impulse of the nonconformist Segantini is the image chosen for the 2025 CL Easter poster
The first evening in Rimini for the GS Triduum (©Roberto Masi/Fraternity CL)

“The goal is great and the companionship is steadfast”

The message from the President of the Fraternity of CL, Davide Prosperi, read to the students of Gioventù Studentesca gathered in Rimini from all over Italy for the Easter Triduum
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa (© Ansa/Epa/Alaa Badarneh)

Pierbattista Pizzaballa. The end of a world

The war in the Holy Land, where “nothing will ever be the same again.” The crisis of a Church model whose problem “not relevance, but having something to say.” An interview in Il Foglio with the Patriarch of Jerusalem of the Latins, between bitter realism
Monsignor Rino Fisichella: after the Jubilee of Mercy, Pope Francis called him to lead the Jubilee of Hope as well (© Alessia Giuliani/Catholic Press Photo)

The great unknown

“Hope is the ability to look to the future knowing that God does not leave us alone. It is the certainty that good always triumphs over evil.” Monsignor Rino Fisichella introduces the meaning of Jubilee 2025, for which he has organizational responsibility
The first aid efforts in the city of Mandalay (© Ansa-Xinhua/ABACA)

Myanmar. “We need everything, pray for us”

First testimonies from the Southeast Asian country devastated by the earthquake and already trialled by years of civil war. A tragedy within a tragedy, where, thanks to the presence of the Church, signs of hope emerge
“Going to work,” 1943, L.S. Lowry, Imperial War Museum, London (detail)

Work means changing reality

The challenges of today's society, questions about one's daily actions. And the proposal for an alternative to the “despotic invasion of consciousness.” Excerpts from the introduction of the gathering of young people of CL Europe in Ávila
(©Ansa/Epa/Christophe Petit Tesson)

War is not the only scenario

A few days ago, Corriere della Sera columnist Antonio Polito commented on Davide Prosperi’s article in La Repubblica from March 16. Here is the response from the President of the Fraternity of CL (Corriere della Sera, March 29, 2025)