Current Events - 2024

Guatemala City (Photo: Unsplash/Juan Carlos Pavón)

Guatemala: A unity of life

Current EventsIngrid Lopez

The Beginning Day was held for the first time in the Central American country. The community responsible: “So many questions have opened up. What am I called to?”

The meeting in Rimini (Photo: Meeting Rimini)

Compagnia delle Opere: A Story in progress

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The text of the meeting at the Rimini Meeting with Davide Prosperi, President of the Fraternity of CL, Andrea Dellabianca, President of the Cdo, and Giuseppe Frangi, journalist at Vita.

Waiting for election results in New York (Ansa/Michael Nigro/Pacific Press via ZUMA Press Wire)

What America is looking towards

Current EventsMattia Ferraresi

Trump's victory, the unprecedented mosaic of communities and minorities –including a good portion of Catholics – who voted for him, and the new face of the United States.

Mishy Harman at the Rimini Meeting (Photo: © Archivio Meeting di Rimini)

The podcast of dialogue

Current EventsMaria Acqua Simi

Mishy Harman is Jewish, and Federica Sasso is Catholic: a unity that is reflected in their way of looking at things and at work, telling the stories of everyone’s struggles. Their story in the October issue of Tracce.

In the devastated streets of Valencia (ANSA/EPA/Emanuel Bruque)

Only love turns mud into a miracle

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A group of university students in Valencia are helping clean up areas devastated by the flood. “Where do you come from, Heaven?” Here is their testimony.

AVSI: Education in the far corners of the world

Current EventsMatteo Rigamonti

From Uganda to Ecuador to support the hope of young people and those challenged by war and violence. The launch of the AVSI Tents campaign with a speech by Davide Prosperi.

Dialogue: agreeing to disagree or sharing our humanity?

Current EventsTom Gourlay*

Tom, the President of the Christopher Dawson Society for Philosophy and Culture wrote a piece on how the public square would benefit from approaching dialogue from the point of view of Monsignor Luigi Giussani.

Monsignor Lorenzo Albacete

A living seed in the heart of the American dream

Current EventsGiorgio Vittadini

The figure and legacy of Lorenzo Albacete ten years after his death. A refined theologian, his “Chestertonian” irony, and a father to many, who prophesised the crisis of American society.

Cormac McCarthy (Photo: Professor Productions/ Jones, Dawn/ Album/ Mondadori Portfolio)

On a journey with McCarthy

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The great American writer who gave the title to this year’s Rimini Meeting, as recounted by Stas’ Gawronski, author and TV host. From the October issue of Tracce.

He Li

From Piero della Francesca to the Meeting

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He Li's journey in search of the essential. Fed up with everything around him, he set out in pursuit of beauty in the companionship of the Renaissance painter. Until he encountered the Christian community in Rimini.

Alberto at a presentation of his book.

The Ethics of AI

Current EventsJohn Kinder

A new book on AI places morality and ethics at the centre of its reflection on the latest revolution in data science. The author moved recently to Sydney and found a receptive audience for this new approach.

The Beginning Day of the Lombardy Region, Italy, which was held at the Unipol Forum in Assago (Milan)

Called, that is, sent: the beginning of mission

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Notes from the Beginning Day of the adults of Communion and Liberation of the Lombardy Region, Italy. Notes from the words by Francesco Cassese and Davide Prosperi.The testimony of Hussam Abu Sini is also available online.

Franz and Franziska Jägerstätter (Photo: Archivio Meeting di Rimini)

What is worth living for?

Current EventsPaola Bergamini

Franz Jägerstätter was put to death by the Nazis for refusing to enlist. What does his testimony tell us today? A dialogue with Father Emmanuele Silanos, among the curators of the exhibition at the Rimini Meeting.

Fr. Giussani during a meeting in 1983 (Photo: Fraternità CL/Federico Brunetti)

Fr. Giussani. A legacy for all

Current EventsPaola Ronconi

Fifteen years ago the website “Scritti di Luigi Giussani” went online, which collects nearly 5000 texts by the founder of CL in multiple languages. Today, Giussani would have turned 102.

Priscilla Achan at the G7 in Caserta

Priscilla, Fr. Giussani, and the G7

Current EventsMauro Giacomazzi

The principal of Luigi Giussani Primary School in Kampala, Uganda at the G7 summit. Orphaned, she was supported by AVSI and now devotes herself to her students: “Education is walking together to discover the meaning of life.”

The meeting in the Brussels stadium with the Catholic community (Photo: Ansa/Ciro Fusco)

Belgium, a people in search

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The Pope's visit was a provocation, not only for Catholics. It reopened questions even among non-believers who sang in the choir and were deeply marked by the visit.

The streets of Beirut after the bombing (Photo Ansa/Epa/Wael Hamzeh)

“True hope”. Praying with the Pope for peace

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CL joins in the recitation of the Rosary on Sunday, October 6, and the day of prayer and fasting on Monday, October 7, called by the Pope. Prosperi: “Let us pray to Our Lady that she may obtain from God what seems to be impossible for man.”