News - 2024

Beginning Day for CL Ireland

the Beginning of the Mission

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CL Ireland met for the Beginning Day. A convivial day to reflect on mission that starts from the call of each of us where we experienced an impossible yet desirable gaze.

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.”

© Vasantha Yogananthan

Education. All within a gaze

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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.

Colum McCann (Photo: Meeting Rimini)

Tireless seeker of the essence

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The great writer Colum McCann was a guest speaker at this year's Meeting. Stories like those of Israeli Rami and Palestinian Bassam “help us tell the story of light even in the darkness of contradictions."

(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.

The Way of the cross at the GS' Triduo (Photo: Denis Billi/Fraternità CL)

This is what I want for my life

Letters

A testimony on the GS Triduo in Italy, the journey, the Way of the Cross, the lessons, the songs, an unexpected encounter.

Monsignor Mario Delpini signs the documents for the opening of the Testimonial Phase. On his right, Monsignor Ennio Apeciti (Photo: Pino Franchino/Fraternity CL)

Fr. Giussani: the Fascination of the Charism

Current EventsMario Delpini

The opening of the testimonial phase of the Cause of Beatification of the founder of CL. The words of the Archbishop of Milan, Monsignor Mario Delpini, and the greeting of Davide Prosperi. Basilica of Sant’Ambrogio, May 9, 2024

Pope Francis issues the Bull of Indiction for the Ordinary Jubilee of 2025. St. Peter's Basilica, May 9, 2024 (Photo: Riccardo Antimiani/Ansa)

Hope does not disappoint

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On May 9, in St. Peter's Basilica, Pope Francis proclaimed the Ordinary Jubilee of 2025 with the Bull "Spes non confundit".

The GS Way of the Cross during the Triduum in Rimini (Giacomo Bellavista/Fraternity CL)

"The promise that awaits us"

Current EventsBernardo Cedone

A young teacher recounts what he saw happening at the Easter Triduum of Gioventù Studentesca in Rimini.

Erik Varden (Photo: Lupe de la Vallina)

Erik Varden: broadening desire

Current EventsAnna Leonardi

In the March issue of Tracce, the Norwegian bishop speaks about the search for love in today's world. The key to living it. And why Mary Magdalene would be “an excellent patron saint for the twenty-first century.”

Pope Francis at the audience for Fr. Giussani's centenary on October 15, 2022 (Roberto Masi/Fraternity CL)

The Pope's Letter: the path to follow

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Notes from the Communion and Liberation leaders’ meeting with Davide Prosperi and Francesco Cassese on Pope Francis’ letter to the whole movement. Milan and via video connection from Italy and around the world, February 20, 2024

The image from the Easter poster 2024. Duccio di Buoninsegna (1260 ca.-1318), Maestà, cymantium: "The Appearance of Christ behind closed doors". Museo dell’Opera Metropolitana, Siena, Italy Photo: Opera Metropolitana Siena/Scala, Florence

Easter 2024. The CL Poster

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This year, the words of Pope Francis and Fr. Giussani are accompanied by Duccio di Buoninsegna's "The Appearance of Christ behind closed doors".

Pope Francis greets families at the Festival of Families in Croke Park, Dublin, held during the 9th World Meeting of Families in Ireland in August 2018 (Catholic Communications Office archive)

Referendum in Ireland on March 8th

Current EventsIrish Catholic Bishops’ Conference

The Referendums concern the concept of Family and protection of mothers in the homes. The statement of the Church on the Family and Care referendums.

Fr. Luigi Giussani (Sergio Assandri/Archivio Fraternità CL)

"Christianity as an event today"

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On the 19th anniversary of his death, the full version of the unpublished text from the February issue of Traces: notes from a lesson given by Fr. Luigi Giussani in 1992.

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Through a half-shut gate

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A listening guide to Rachmaninov's Preludes, with Prof. Pier Paolo Bellini at TU Dublin