Easter Poster 2025

The words of Pope Francis and Fr. Giussani accompany Giovanni Segantini's Kissing the Cross.
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The Greatest Friend

A movie night series with high schoolers is the beginning of something new in Ohio

Our little Cincinnati community is small but beautifully diverse: young people, not-so-young, families, single people, toddlers, and teens of all ages. We often find ourselves all together during moments like our now-almost-traditional Christmas holiday i...

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A Miracle Becoming a History

The birth of Gioventù Studentesca in Atchison, Kansas, and what they are learning

It was not the best day to begin an American road trip. Heavy snow and sleet had begun falling over north-eastern Kansas late Tuesday afternoon and by Wednesday morning our planned departure from Atchison was covered in more than four inches of snow. With...

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“Do Not Be Afraid to Welcome Christ”

The homily of Pope St. John Paul II on the inauguration of his pontificate in honor of the 20th anniversary of his death

1. "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God" (Mt 16:16). These words were spoken by Simon, son of Jonah, in the district of Caesarea Philippi. Yes, he spoke them with his own tongue, with a deeply lived and experienced conviction—but it is not in hi...

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Spirto Gentil: The Heart as the Key to Music

An interview with Pier Paolo Bellini on the new publication of Fr. Luigi Giussani’s Spirto Gentil reflections

The discovery of Spirto Gentil gives me courage to play the music that I love with renewed insight and spiritual strength. –Kuok-Wai Lio, pianist Pier Paolo Bellini is associate professor at the University of Molise where he teaches Sociology of Comm...