A life that is narrated
Current EventsThe international magazine of Communion and Liberation. Every two months, it features stories and faces from the life of the Movement, along with a unique perspective on major current events
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Rémi Brague. False Europe
Current Events“The commotion around a rearmament could serve as a smokescreen to hide a central uncertainty. Before finding the means of defense, we need to ask the fundamental question: What exactly are we trying to defend?” A conversation with Professor Rémi Brague
Brazil. A School for Matheus
Current EventsRita Rocha, a pedagogue, tells the story of an unexpected friendship with a boy searching for God. And the beginning of the adventure in a school born in one of the most challenging favelas of Rio de Janeiro
The pope of unity and mission
Current EventsLeo XIV as described by Monsignor GiovanninPaccosi, who met him in Peru: “As a bishop, he valued everyone. He goes to the heart of faith–the encounter with Christ–in embracing everyone, especially those on the margins”
“Stop the war”
Current EventsVatican News interview with Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin: “An end to the bombardments and for the necessary aid to reach the population.” And an immediate truce in Ukraine “to end the devastation”
Jubilee of Movements. Prosperi's message
Current EventsThe words of the President of the Fraternity of CL on the eve of the pilgrimage to Rome for the Jubilee of Movements, Associations and New Communities (June 7-8, 2025)
The Sower and that “high yellow note”
Current EventsThe sun dominates the Van Gogh painting referenced in Pope Leo’s first Wednesday audience: “It warms the clods of earth and makes the seed ripen.”
The Augustinian charism and the gift of friendship
Current EventsA conversation the new Pope, Robert Francis Prevost, had in September 2023 with the office of the General Curia of the Augustinians on the eve of his appointment as cardinal
“To move aside so that Christ may remain”
Current EventsLeo XIV's homily at the Missa Pro Ecclesia with the Cardinals in the Sistine Chapel
A passionate commitment to “walk together”
Current EventsDavide Prosperi’s words: “Joy and gratitude for the election of Pope Leo XIV. We pray that Christ grant His Vicar His light and strength, and we reaffirm our complete readiness to tirelessly serve him and the whole Church”
“Habemus Papam”: Peter has returned
Current EventsFrom the waiting to the white smoke. Then the joy and gratitude of a people hearing the first words of Pope Leo XIV, appearing at the Loggia of Benedictions. A report from the square
“Peace be with all of you”
Current EventsThe Conclave has elected the 267th bishop of Rome, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who has chosen the name Leo XIV. Here are his first words
Someone who precedes me
Current EventsAt the Kyustendil spa, Sofia, the vacation of the communities of Southeast Europe: eighty people from Bulgaria, Greece, Kosovo, Romania, Slovenia and Albania for a meeting that continues
Hope through building
Current EventsFaced with the world's challenges, “our affection for the movement grows” and so does “the certainty of the goodness of the path we are on.” Faces and stories from the life of the CL communities in Latin America
“United with the Church, we pray for the cardinals”
Current EventsThe movement responds to the request of the College of Cardinals. The words of Davide Prosperi: "May the Father sustain our faith and our unity; may Mary, Mother of the Church, protect us with her intercession"
“The goal is great and the companionship is steadfast”
Current EventsThe 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
Pierbattista Pizzaballa. The end of a world
Current EventsThe 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 with the Patriarch of Jerusalem, between bitter realism and Christian hope
The rebel and the cross
Current EventsA 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
Work means changing reality
Current EventsThe 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
The great unknown
Current Events“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
Myanmar. “We need everything, pray for us”
Current EventsFirst 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