The great writer Colum McCann was a guest speaker at this year's Meeting. Stories like those of Israeli Rami and Palestinian Bassam “help us tell the story of light even in the darkness of contradictions."
She has gone from being a self-taught student to directing a work that educates thousands of children in Pakistan. From the Meeting, the story of the winner of the Global Teacher Prize 2023.
The Holy Father's words at a meeting with authorities, civil society and the diplomatic corps in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, during his trip to Asia and Oceania.
A Russian lady who has known the Meeting for some time is at the fair for Navalny's book presentation. Thanks to a borrowed smartphone she is able to listen to the live broadcast. Then the tears: “Here you are talking about my country.
Both a diplomatic and an apostolic visit, during which two words have emerged clearly: “dialogue” and “reconciliation.” A priest from the CL community in Indonesia comments on Francis' trip to Asia and Oceania.
The booklet of the Spiritual Exercises of the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation. 2024
“Today it is essential to stop and ask ourselves: is there something worth living and hoping for?” Holy Father Francis' words on the occasion of the XLV Meeting for Friendship Among Peoples (Rimini, August 20-25, 2024).
The economic and political crisis and the threat of a new violent escalation. Yet at the Franciscan Convent in Tripoli, help continues to be offered to all. The report of the meeting a few weeks ago with Fr. Toufiq and Fr. Quirico.
The magazine of the movement is turning fifty and will be celebrated at the Rimini Meeting with a dedicated booth and a series of live meetings with friends and witnesses of its history. And with all its readers
The absence of the father, the scandal of racial hatred, questions about evil, and the structural need for God: A portrait one hundred years from his birth of the American writer James Baldwin, one of the most voice of his era. From August Traces
Davide Prosperi's message to the high-school graduates, undergraduates and recent graduates of Communion and Liberation on pilgrimage to the Polish shrine.
The anti-power
A large family, a disabled daughter and the path within the movement. Anna recounted her story at the vacation of the Lombardy leaders of the movement.
As a young physiotherapist, he treated Fr. Giussani in the 1990s. An encounter that changed his life. His testimony at the vacation with some of the CL leaders from Lombardy.
An excerpt from Davide Prosperi's Preface to the new book of Fr. Giussani, Una rivoluzione di sé. La vita come comunione (1968-1970)" [A Revolution of Self. Life as Communion (1968-1970)]
Paris, Munich, Oxford, Madrid, Vienna, Tokyo, Santiago de Chile... An increasing number of meetings and exhibitions. The story of the two Japanese newlyweds has touched thousands of people. What is it about them that is so interesting to us today?
If life is totally given, even a person deprived of everything can never be a slave to any lie. The relevance of the lesson of Aleksandr Solženicyn quoted by Fr. Giussani in the eighth chapter of The Religious Sense.
“Anticipation of vacation is evidence of the will to live; for just this reason it must not be ‘vacation’ from oneself. Then summer will not be an interruption or a postponement of taking life seriously.”
The protests of young people, the desire for freedom and justice, and the work on the eighth chapter of The Religious Sense. Some friends from Nairobi speak of what sustains them as their country descends into chaos.
The life of the movement and key steps taken in recent years, including the relationship with politics and culture. The President of the Fraternity speaks in an interview with Corriere della Sera.
The booklet of the Spiritual Exercises of the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation. 2024