Current Events - 2025

Flannery O'Connor

Facing mystery holding your breath

Current EventsPaola Bergamini

A hundred years after her birth, Flannery O'Connor's “good fiction” continues to unveil the ultimate meaning of life

Palestinian families in Gaza (© Ansa/Habboud Ramez/ABACAPRESS.COM)

"We must disarm words, to disarm the Earth"

Current EventsPope Francis

Pope Francis' letter to Corriere della Sera editor Luciano Fontana, sent from the Gemelli Hospital in Rome, where he has been hospitalized since February 14

Fr. Julián Carrón (@ Fraternità CL/Lupe de la Vallina)

“Priesthood, a ‘true grandeur’”

Current EventsDavide Prosperi

Davide 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.”

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A realistic path to peace

Current EventsDavide Prosperi

Wars, 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

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“Antiqua et nova". An urgent matter

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The 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

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The strongest flame

Current EventsPierbattista Pizzaballa Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem

The message of Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, for the 2025 edition of the New York Encounter

Pope Francis during an Audience last January (©Ansa/Alessandro Di Meo)

Twelve years of Pope Francis

Current EventsDavide Prosperi

On March 13, 2013, Jorge Mario Bergoglio ascended to the See of Peter. Davide Prosperi's message on the anniversary of his Papacy

Christophe PierreApostolic Nuncio to the United States of America

Fr. Giussani. The passion of the encounter

Current EventsChristophe Pierre, Apostolic Nuncio to the United States of America

Cardinal 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

The bridge over the Ohio leading to Cincinnati (© Unspash/Matt Koffel mattkoffel)

Beyond the river, a heart that burns

Current EventsLuca Fiore

Emily, 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.”

Monsignor Giovanni Paccosi celebrates mass for the 20th anniversary of Fr. Giussani's death

“A free yes to the Father's love”

Current EventsGiovanni Paccosi, Bishop of San Miniato

The 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

Rimini Fiera Spiritual Exercises of the Fraternity of CL 2024. © Fraternità di CL

That “healthy interference”

Current EventsStefano Filippi

The Fraternity is 43 years old. What kind of experience is being lived today in the many groups that continue to form? Francesco Cassese, the CL responsible for Lombardy, tells us in the February issue of Tracce

Reichstag building in Berlin (©Unsplash/Tim Simon)

Germany. Free in judgment

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A group of friends working to prepare for elections, the adventure of engaging with different viewpoints, and the gratitude for help in delving deeper into reality

Pope Francis (©Ansa/Fabio Frustaci)

Prosperi: "We pray for Pope Francis"

Current EventsDavide Prosperi

The President of the Fraternity of CL invites prayers for the Holy Father, “grateful for how he lives out his total entrustment to Christ in his own flesh.”

Young volunteers (© New York Encounter)

New York Encounter. The beginning of a new life

Current EventsLuca Fiore

Lives marked by an encounter, witnesses of hope, artists and writers in dialogue with the present. Three days discovering a unique place of “cultural resistance” in the United States

Don Giussani during a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1986 (© Fraternity CL)

Fr. Giussani 2005-2025

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Twenty years after his death, letters, testimonies, and contributions about the the founder of Communion and Liberation. Also, a selection of homilies from the hundreds of Masses celebrated worldwide for the anniversary