"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
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“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
That “healthy interference”
Current EventsThe 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
Germany. Free in judgment
Current EventsA 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
“Giussani was able to speak to the human person”
Current EventsRemembering founder of CL, 20 years after his passing, in an interview with Davide Prosperi published in Milano Sette, the weekly supplement of Avvenire
Prosperi: "We pray for Pope Francis"
Current EventsThe 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.”
New York Encounter. The beginning of a new life
Current EventsLives 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
Fr. Giussani 2005-2025
Current EventsTwenty 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
“He took the human person seriously. He took Christ seriously”
Current EventsTwenty years after Fr. Giussani's death, the contribution of Cardinal Kevin Joseph Farrell, Prefect of the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life (download the PDF)
At the lectern with Giussani
Current EventsBorn in Canada and raised an Evangelical, he now teaches in Australia. 20 years after Giussani’s death, theologian Taylor Glass shared how he crossed paths with the Italian priest
Enzo Piccinini. The diocesan inquiry concludes
Current EventsThe Diocesan Phase of the Cause for beatification and canonization of Enzo Piccinini will close on February 22. Postulator Francesca Amedea Consolini explains what is happening