The Augustinian charism and the gift of friendship
Current EventsA 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
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“To move aside so that Christ may remain”
Current EventsLeo XIV's homily at the Missa Pro Ecclesia with the Cardinals in the Sistine Chapel
A passionate commitment to “walk together”
Current EventsDavide 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”
“Habemus Papam”: Peter has returned
Current EventsFrom 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
“Peace be with all of you”
Current EventsThe Conclave has elected the 267th bishop of Rome, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who has chosen the name Leo XIV. Here are his first words
Someone who precedes me
Current EventsAt 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
Hope through building
Current EventsFaced 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
“United with the Church, we pray for the cardinals”
Current EventsThe 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"
“The goal is great and the companionship is steadfast”
Current EventsThe message from the President of the Fraternity of CL, Davide Prosperi, read to the students of Gioventù Studentesca gathered in Rimini from all over Italy for the Easter Triduum
Pierbattista Pizzaballa. The end of a world
Current EventsThe 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
The rebel and the cross
Current EventsA 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
Work means changing reality
Current EventsThe 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
The great unknown
Current Events“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
Myanmar. “We need everything, pray for us”
Current EventsFirst 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
War is not the only scenario
Current EventsA few days ago, Corriere della Sera columnist Antonio Polito commented on Davide Prosperi’s article in La Repubblica from March 16. Here is the response from the President of the Fraternity of CL (Corriere della Sera, March 29, 2025)
Facing mystery holding your breath
Current EventsA hundred years after her birth, Flannery O'Connor's “good fiction” continues to unveil the ultimate meaning of life
Easter 2025. The Communion and Liberation poster
Current EventsThe words of Pope Francis and Fr. Giussani accompany Giovanni Segantini's Kissing the Cross. The video-poster is also available online
"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
“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