The Pope to movements:"Be for the Church"

"Thinking as God thinks, overcoming exclusiveness, and cultivating humility." Francis spoke at the meeting of the Dicastery for the Laity, the Family and Life with moderators of lay associations, ecclesial movements and new communities.
Davide Prosperi and Pope Francis at the audience on October 15, 2022 for Fr. Giussani's centenary (Catholic Press Photo)

Prosperi: "Faith, a new gaze at the world"

The life of the movement and key steps taken in recent years, including the relationship with politics and culture. The President of the Fraternity speaks in an interview with Corriere della Sera.
Aleksandr Solženicyn (Photo: Ansa/Archivio/Michael Estafiev/Drn)

What no power can take from us

If life is totally given, even a person deprived of everything can never be a slave to any lie. The relevance of the lesson of Aleksandr Solženicyn quoted by Fr. Giussani in the eighth chapter of The Religious Sense.

“What Surprises Me, Says God, Is Hope”

The booklet of the Spiritual Exercises of the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation. 2024
Davide Prosperi and Letizia Bardazzi, president of AIC.

Culture: To be for Christ

Notes from the speech by Davide Prosperi, President of the Fraternity of CL, at the assembly of the Association of Italian Cultural Centers (Milan, May 18, 2024)
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

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
 CLU students (Montreal and Ottawa)

Destination:Lynn, Massachusetts!

In March, a Lenten retreat for the CLU students took place in Lynn, Massachusetts. Students from Canada joined them for moments of reflection, silence and prayer. They share their experience of that weekend.
Cristiano Ferrario, an oncologist at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, with a patient

The care for life:"I don't detach"

Cristiano Ferrario is an oncologist in Montréal, in Canada, where the law allows euthanasia. In the midst of diagnoses and treatments, the discovery of “a trust that sets people free even in illness.” His story in the April issue of Traces.
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 the CL Poster

This year, the words of Pope Francis and Fr. Giussani are accompanied by Duccio di Buoninsegna's "The Appearance of Christ behind closed doors".
Monsignor Christian Lépine (Mass for the 19th anniversary of Fr. Giussani's death)

"Beggars of Jesus Christ"

The homily of Msgr Lepine, Archbishop of Montreal at the Memorial Mass for the 19th anniversary of the death of the founder of Communion and Liberation and the 42nd anniversary of the pontifical recognition of the Fraternity

"On Fr. Giussani's death anniversary, we are reminded of our union with the communion of saints"

The homily of Fr. Kevin Burgess Vice-Rector in Notre-Dame Basilica in Ottawa, on the occasion of the Mass for Don Giussani's anniversary of death.

A Unique Lens

The friends that organized the Leonard Cohen exhibit at the 2024 New York Encounter share their judgment on the work.
(Unsplash/Kelly Sikkema)

Prosperi: Communicating the beauty we encounter every day

The 46th National Day for Life celebrated by the Italian Church. The contribution of the President of the Fraternity in a special issue of the newspaper Avvenire on February 4.