Current Events - 2025

A life that is narrated

Current Events

The international magazine of Communion and Liberation. Every two months, it features stories and faces from the life of the Movement, along with a unique perspective on major current events

Rémi Brague, Professor Emeritus at the Sorbonne in Paris and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich (© Francesca Mantovani/Gallimard/opale.photo/Mondadori Portfolio)

Rémi Brague. False Europe

Current EventsMattia Ferraresi

“The commotion around a rearmament could serve as a smokescreen to hide a central uncertainty. Before finding the means of defense, we need to ask the fundamental question: What exactly are we trying to defend?” A conversation with Professor Rémi Brague

Students from the Padre Francisco da Motta school

Brazil. A School for Matheus

Current EventsMaria Acqua Simi

Rita Rocha, a pedagogue, tells the story of an unexpected friendship with a boy searching for God. And the beginning of the adventure in a school born in one of the most challenging favelas of Rio de Janeiro

Pope Leo XIV greeting the crowds in St. Peter's (© Catholic Press Photo))

The pope of unity and mission

Current EventsStefano Filippi

Leo XIV as described by Monsignor GiovanninPaccosi, who met him in Peru: “As a bishop, he valued everyone. He goes to the heart of faith–the encounter with Christ–in embracing everyone, especially those on the margins”

The Fahmi Al-Jarjawi School, in Gaza City, destroyed by shelling (©Ansa-Abaca/Photo by Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua)

“Stop the war”

Current EventsAndrea Tornielli

Vatican News interview with Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin: “An end to the bombardments and for the necessary aid to reach the population.” And an immediate truce in Ukraine “to end the devastation”

 Leo XIV in St. Peter's Square (©Ansa/Angelo Carconi) Leo XIV in St. Peter's Square (©Ansa/Angelo Carconi)

Jubilee of Movements. Prosperi's message

Current EventsDavide Prosperi

The words of the President of the Fraternity of CL on the eve of the pilgrimage to Rome for the Jubilee of Movements, Associations and New Communities (June 7-8, 2025)

'Sower at Sunset' by Vincent van Gogh, 1888, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo (©Wikimedia Commons)

The Sower and that “high yellow note”

Current EventsGiuseppe Frangi

The sun dominates the Van Gogh painting referenced in Pope Leo’s first Wednesday audience: “It warms the clods of earth and makes the seed ripen.”

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost receives the biretta from Pope Francis (©Ansa/Giuseppe Lami)

The Augustinian charism and the gift of friendship

Current EventsRicardo Morales Jiménez

A conversation the new Pope, Robert Francis Prevost, had in September 2023 with the office of the General Curia of the Augustinians on the eve of his appointment as cardinal

A passionate commitment to “walk together”

Current EventsDavide Prosperi

Davide Prosperi’s words: “Joy and gratitude for the election of Pope Leo XIV. We pray that Christ grant His Vicar His light and strength, and we reaffirm our complete readiness to tirelessly serve him and the whole Church”

Pope Leo XIV greets St. Peter's Square (©Ansa/Vatican Media)

“Habemus Papam”: Peter has returned

Current EventsSilvia Guidi

From the waiting to the white smoke. Then the joy and gratitude of a people hearing the first words of Pope Leo XIV, appearing at the Loggia of Benedictions. A report from the square

The new pope, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who has chosen the name Leo XIV, blesses the faithful at St. Peter's, May 8, 2025 (© Ansa/Vatican Media)

“Peace be with all of you”

Current EventsPope Leo XIV

The Conclave has elected the 267th bishop of Rome, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who has chosen the name Leo XIV. Here are his first words

The vacation of the communities of Southeast Europe

Someone who precedes me

Current EventsValentina Frigerio

At the Kyustendil spa, Sofia, the vacation of the communities of Southeast Europe: eighty people from Bulgaria, Greece, Kosovo, Romania, Slovenia and Albania for a meeting that continues

A group of volunteers who contributed to ARAL 2025 (© Cecilia Barreto)

Hope through building

Current EventsMaria Acqua Simi

Faced with the world's challenges, “our affection for the movement grows” and so does “the certainty of the goodness of the path we are on.” Faces and stories from the life of the CL communities in Latin America

Cardinals at the Novendial Mass in memory of Pope Francis, St. Peter's, Rome (©Ansa/Fabio Frustaci)

“United with the Church, we pray for the cardinals”

Current Events

The movement responds to the request of the College of Cardinals. The words of Davide Prosperi: "May the Father sustain our faith and our unity; may Mary, Mother of the Church, protect us with her intercession"

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa (© Ansa/Epa/Alaa Badarneh)

Pierbattista Pizzaballa. The end of a world

Current EventsMatteo Matzuzzi

The war in the Holy Land, where “nothing will ever be the same again.” The crisis of a Church model whose problem “not relevance, but having something to say.” An interview with the Patriarch of Jerusalem, between bitter realism and Christian hope

Giovanni Segantini, Kissing the Cross, 1881–82, Segantini Museum St. Moritz, deposit of the Otto Fischbacher Giovanni Segantini Foundation

The rebel and the cross

Current EventsGiovanni Frangi

A child in his mother’s arms reaching out to kiss the cross: in this gesture “everything is positivity.” The impulse of the nonconformist Segantini is the image chosen for the 2025 CL Easter poster

“Going to work,” 1943, L.S. Lowry, Imperial War Museum, London (detail)

Work means changing reality

Current EventsEttore Pezzuto

The challenges of today's society, questions about one's daily actions. And the proposal for an alternative to the “despotic invasion of consciousness.” Excerpts from the introduction of the gathering of young people of CL Europe in Ávila

Monsignor Rino Fisichella: after the Jubilee of Mercy, Pope Francis called him to lead the Jubilee of Hope as well (© Alessia Giuliani/Catholic Press Photo)

The great unknown

Current EventsStefano Maria Paci

“Hope is the ability to look to the future knowing that God does not leave us alone. It is the certainty that good always triumphs over evil.” Monsignor Rino Fisichella introduces the meaning of Jubilee 2025, for which he has organizational responsibility

The first aid efforts in the city of Mandalay (© Ansa-Xinhua/ABACA)

Myanmar. “We need everything, pray for us”

Current EventsMatteo Rigamonti

First testimonies from the Southeast Asian country devastated by the earthquake and already trialled by years of civil war. A tragedy within a tragedy, where, thanks to the presence of the Church, signs of hope emerge