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Cardinal Pizzaballa at the Corpus Christi celebration in Jerusalem (©lpj.org)

Pizzaballa: “A time of real hunger”

Current EventsPierbattista Pizzaballa Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem

The homily of the Patriarch of Jerusalem at the Corpus Christi mass: “In view of the tragic situation we are currently experiencing, perhaps we too are faced with the same temptation as the disciples. To give up.”

“We came to know love”

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The booklet of the Spiritual Exercises of the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation 2025

Blue Mountains, Sydney (photo B. O'Donnell)

MEMORIES OF AUSTRALIA – Part 4

Current EventsCecilia Trianni

Among the many international students visiting Australia, some CL university students have formed a unique bond that has reshaped their perspective. Here, they share their heartfelt joy and appreciation for this meaningful experience.

Aukland skyline(@unsplash/Niranjan-Lamichhane)

A place to recognise the presence of Jesus

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From Spain, where she knew a large, well established CL community, to New Zealand, Carlota was challenged to see hope in the small beginnings of a new reality at the Antipodes.

The Jubilee of the Movements, St. Peter's Square, Vatican City, Rome (©Giovanni Dinatolo/Fraternità CL)

Faithfulness to the charism and a call for unity

Current EventsMatteo Matzuzzi

“The day we stop making judgements will mean that we have lost our faith.” In the June 11 issue of Il Foglio, an interview with Davide Prosperi, President of the Fraternity of CL

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Macerata-Loreto. Prosperi's message

Current EventsDavide Prosperi

“Your gesture is precious. We must ask Mary to be like her, 'daughter of her Son': we must ask her for the grace to be truly free.” The words of the President of the Fraternity to the participants of the pilgrimage

St. Peter's Square, Jubilee of movements, associations and new communities (© Giovanni Dinatolo/Fraternity CL)

The wellspring of our friendship

Current EventsDavide Prosperi

Message to the entire movement from Davide Prosperi following the Jubilee of Ecclesial Movements, Associations and New Communities (June 7-8, 2025)

A life that is narrated

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The 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

Rémi Brague, Professor Emeritus at the Sorbonne in Paris and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich (© Francesca Mantovani/Gallimard/opale.photo/Mondadori Portfolio)

Rémi Brague. False Europe

Current EventsMattia Ferraresi

“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

Students from the Padre Francisco da Motta school

Brazil. A School for Matheus

Current EventsMaria Acqua Simi

Rita 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

Pope Leo XIV greeting the crowds in St. Peter's (© Catholic Press Photo))

The pope of unity and mission

Current EventsStefano Filippi

Leo 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”

The Fahmi Al-Jarjawi School, in Gaza City, destroyed by shelling (©Ansa-Abaca/Photo by Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua)

“Stop the war”

Current EventsAndrea Tornielli

Vatican 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”

 Leo XIV in St. Peter's Square (©Ansa/Angelo Carconi) Leo XIV in St. Peter's Square (©Ansa/Angelo Carconi)

Jubilee of Movements. Prosperi's message

Current EventsDavide Prosperi

The 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)

'Sower at Sunset' by Vincent van Gogh, 1888, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo (©Wikimedia Commons)

The Sower and that “high yellow note”

Current EventsGiuseppe Frangi

The 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.”

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost receives the biretta from Pope Francis (©Ansa/Giuseppe Lami)

The Augustinian charism and the gift of friendship

Current EventsRicardo Morales Jiménez

A 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

A passionate commitment to “walk together”

Current EventsDavide Prosperi

Davide 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”

Pope Leo XIV greets St. Peter's Square (©Ansa/Vatican Media)

“Habemus Papam”: Peter has returned

Current EventsSilvia Guidi

From 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

The new pope, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who has chosen the name Leo XIV, blesses the faithful at St. Peter's, May 8, 2025 (© Ansa/Vatican Media)

“Peace be with all of you”

Current EventsPope Leo XIV

The Conclave has elected the 267th bishop of Rome, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who has chosen the name Leo XIV. Here are his first words

The vacation of the communities of Southeast Europe

Someone who precedes me

Current EventsValentina Frigerio

At 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

A group of volunteers who contributed to ARAL 2025 (© Cecilia Barreto)

Hope through building

Current EventsMaria Acqua Simi

Faced 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