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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.”

 John Kinder with his oldest friends from Piazzale Corvetto (Milan), in Rome in 2015, to see Pope Francis.

An ordinary story of everday miracles

Current EventsJohn Kinder

At the International Assembly of Responsibles held in Italy in August, John Kinder gave a testimony on his encounter with CL and the life of the Movement in Australia. This was part of an evening of testimonies with the theme ‘Mission and presence’.

Earl K Fernandes (Photo: Columbuscatholic.org)

Earl Fernandes: The joy of being disciples

Current EventsEarl Kenneth Fernandes

The youngest bishop in the United States, serving in the Diocese of Columbus, Ohio, recounts his encounter with the movement and his choice of the episcopal motto “Veni per Mariam”.

Kenya: The greatest revolution

Current EventsStefano Filippi

The youth protests and violence last June, a provocation that has raised many questions and a common judgement, in a flyer signed by the CL university students in Kenya.

(Photo: Unsplash/Hannah Cauhepe)

Evil and the love that saves

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The Paderno Dugnano tragedy and the questions it opens: “The problem is not to educate them in a way of life, but to educate them to ask why we live and what we live for.” The Communion and Liberation flyer.

Anba Ermia at the Rimini Meeting (Photo: Archivio Meeting)

Egypt: Ties that transform

Current EventsLuca Fiore

“Without forgiveness hatred and enmity grow. St. Paul, however, teaches us that one can change evil into good.” Anba Ermia, Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Cairo, talks about himself and the road to coexistence.

This and the other images accompanying the article (reproduced here in some details) are part of Vasantha Yogananthan's special project Fleuve Fauve, made in 2016/17 photographing people and the seasons along the Loire (© Vasantha Yogananthan)

Education. All within a gaze

Current EventsFranco Nembrini and Matteo Severgnini

The crisis of an entire generation. The fear of adults. And the path to a “total” and “living” educational relationship. From the September issue of Tracce, notes from a dialogue with Franco Nembrini and Matteo Severgnini.