“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
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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
War is not the only scenario
Current EventsA 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)
Facing mystery holding your breath
Current EventsA hundred years after her birth, Flannery O'Connor's “good fiction” continues to unveil the ultimate meaning of life
Easter 2025. The Communion and Liberation poster
Current EventsThe words of Pope Francis and Fr. Giussani accompany Giovanni Segantini's Kissing the Cross. The video-poster is also available online
"We must disarm words, to disarm the Earth"
Current EventsPope Francis' letter to Corriere della Sera editor Luciano Fontana, sent from the Gemelli Hospital in Rome, where he has been hospitalized since February 14
“Priesthood, a ‘true grandeur’”
Current EventsDavide Prosperi’s message for the 50th anniversary of Fr. Julián Carrón’s priestly ordination. “I thank Fr. Julián for what his ‘yes’ to the Lord’s call was able to generate.”
A realistic path to peace
Current EventsWars, the arms race, the debate raging across the Old Continent and beyond. “Europe must decide whether to remain faithful to its vocation or contribute to the atmosphere of conflict that seems to prevail over everything.” Davide Prosperi’s letter
“Antiqua et nova". An urgent matter
Current EventsThe Holy See's document on the relationship between artificial intelligence and human intelligence, signed by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith and the Dicastery for Culture and Education
The strongest flame
Current EventsThe message of Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, for the 2025 edition of the New York Encounter
Twelve years of Pope Francis
Current EventsOn March 13, 2013, Jorge Mario Bergoglio ascended to the See of Peter. Davide Prosperi's message on the anniversary of his Papacy
Fr. Giussani. The passion of the encounter
Current EventsCardinal Christophe Pierre, Apostolic Nuncio to the United States, remembers the founder of CL on the 20th anniversary of his death in his homily during Mass celebrated at the New York Encounter
José Gregorio Hernández. Venezuela's first saint
Current EventsPope Francis has signed the decree of canonization of the “doctor of the people.” A challenge for all in a difficult moment in the country's history
Pope Francis on Lent: “Between memory and hope”
Current EventsThe Holy Father's homily for Ash Wednesday, read by Cardinal Angelo De Donatis in the Basilica of Santa Sabina in Rome, March 5
A shared responsibility for “Traces” and the CL website
Current EventsStefano Filippi is the new editor of the movement's international magazine. Joining him are Valentina Frigerio, head of clonline.org and digital activities, and Mattia Ferraresi, editorial consultant
Beyond the river, a heart that burns
Current EventsEmily, a mom from Kentucky, met Hannah in Cincinnati, Ohio. A friendship was born that led her to meet Fr. Giussani and the School of Community: “He helps me understand myself more and more.”
“A free yes to the Father's love”
Current EventsThe homily of the Bishop of San Miniato, Monsignor Giovanni Paccosi, during Mass on the 20th anniversary of Fr. Giussani's death and the 43rd anniversary of the pontifical recognition of the Fraternity of CL, delivered on Wednesday, February 12