Having just returned from the 10th National Eucharistic Congress, I wanted to offer these reflections, as I participated in the pilgrimage in the Diocese of Columbus and in the Congress itself in Indianapolis. The pilgrimage entered the Diocese of Colu...
The Religious Sense at Work is a weekly limited series that explores the way our communal reading of The Religious Sense informs and illuminates our experience of work. My career has always been rooted in the belief that technology can positively impac...
Born from a rich experience among friends living the charism of Communion and Liberation, AVSI Foundation was established in 1972 to carry out humanitarian and development projects world-wide. AVSI-USA – a member of the AVSI Foundation – is a non-profit o...
The Religious Sense at Work is a weekly limited series that explores the way our communal reading of The Religious Sense informs and illuminates our experience of work. I am a diocesan priest, ordained a little over three years. My first couple years o...
The book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is an old favorite of mine, one that I tend to keep on my bedside table. I like it to be handy so I can pick it up on a whim and read a few pages of Annie Dillard’s masterful prose. So I was quite pleased when I learned th...
The vacation period is approaching. This is not a detachment from oneself, but an opportunity to go even deeper into what one lives. For it is there, during time off, that one understands what one really wants. We repropose passages on this theme taken fr...
The Religious Sense at Work is a weekly limited series that explores the way our communal reading of The Religious Sense informs and illuminates our experience of work. I have been working as a senior manager in the tax department of an important accou...
“Communion and Liberation will not give up giving its own judgment on reality.” Davide Prosperi is a 52-year-old biochemist, Professor at the Bicocca University, and specialist in Nanomedicine. From Milan, he is married and is the father of four, and has ...
The Religious Sense at Work is a weekly limited series that explores the way our communal reading of The Religious Sense informs and illuminates our experience of work. The School of Community work this year has been pivotal in generating a new awarene...
The Book of the Month for July is Everything I Did I Did for Happiness: The Life of Enzo Piccinini, by Marco Bardazzi. Here, we present Jessica’s witness to Enzo’s significant help in her work as an invitation to read the book. Enzo Piccinini, an Ital...
On the weekend of June 7-9, over ninety people from across the United States met for the National Diaconia at the Theological College in Washington D.C. Fr. Michael Carvill introduced the weekend by recalling that “it is beautiful to be together because o...
There is a medium sized painting towards the back of a large gallery room in the Cincinnati Art Museum that catches your eye immediately. It is Henry Ossawa Tanner’s Flight Into Egypt and the blues that depict the night, outlining the three figures of the...
The Religious Sense at Work is a weekly limited series that explores the way our communal reading of The Religious Sense informs and illuminates our experience of work. I am a high school theology teacher, but I can easily despair attempting to educate...
Your Eminence, Dear brothers and sisters, good morning and welcome to everyone! I am pleased to meet with you and take this opportunity to reflect with you on synodality, which you have chosen as the theme for your meeting. I have often emphasized tha...
Over the last few years our CL Community in Florida has had the opportunity to grow in friendship with the Comunità Cenacolo in St. Augustine, FL. Cenacolo was founded by Mother Elvira in 1983 to provide hope and healing to those suffering from addiction....
The Religious Sense at Work is a weekly limited series that explores the way our communal reading of The Religious Sense informs and illuminates our experience of work. I work in the heart of corporate America, immersed on a daily basis in a “system” t...
The Religious Sense at Work is a weekly limited series that explores the way our communal reading of The Religious Sense informs and illuminates our experience of work. No experience in my life has stripped me down to my limits like that of motherhood....
I am not a literary scholar, nor am I an expert on this book, which I read for the first time just a few months ago. However, I can talk about why I wish that all the friends who, like me, have been working on The Religious Sense would read Brideshead Rev...
Just over a year ago, I was invited to my first School of Community. Before I started my Food Science Master’s program at Penn State, I had never heard of Communion and Liberation, and I knew little of what to expect. Admittedly, it took me a while to get...
The Religious Sense at Work is a weekly limited series that explores the way our communal reading of The Religious Sense informs and illuminates our experience of work. I experience the religious sense at work constantly. As a postpartum nurse, I have ...
Ever since I read Apeirogon, the masterpiece by Colum McCann, I have wanted to meet the writer and the two protagonists of the work: the Israeli Rami Elhanan, and the Palestinian Bassam Aramin. A meeting took place thanks to my friends at the Rimini Meeti...
When I first heard of The Chosen, it was early in the Covid-19 pandemic. I had seen advertisements for the show, but wasn’t interested in another cheesy Christian production. I don’t know what prompted me to wade into the first season, but I’m glad I did....
“Ma’am, your son is special.” Antonia Acutis heard this many times, from their parish priest, from his teachers and classmates, from the doorman of their building on Via Ariosto in Milan, where they moved in 1994, three years after the birth of Carlo, a y...
May 26th marks the 25th anniversary of the death of Servant of God Enzo Piccinini. Piccinini was an Italian surgeon and member of Communion and Liberation who tragically passed away in a car accident on his way home from a dinner with friends following a ...
I teach philosophy at the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico. I want to share what a young student, who is a novice in a religious order, wrote to me a couple of days ago about how the little he has been able to read of Father Giussani has impa...
After nearly 16 years in the Movement, I only recently joined the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation. My family and I live in Atchison, Kansas, where my husband Aaron is the responsible of our School of Community. For me, joining the Fraternity was a ...
The deNicola Center for Ethics and Culture, a center at the University of Notre Dame which promotes “sharing the richness of the Catholic intellectual tradition through teaching, research, and public engagement,” presented Elvira Parravicini with its Evan...
As American university campuses explode in protest, a group of eighty students are preparing to go on pilgrimage to pray for peace. The Communion and Liberation University students traditionally spend the week after the spring semester ends on vacation...
In May, we are re-proposing The Song of Bernadette by Franz Werfel as our book of the month. Rev. Andrew Carvill introduces the book. “You see this child: he is destined for the fall and for the rising of many in Israel, destined to be a sign that is ...
The testimonial phase of the Cause for the Beatification of the Servant of God, Monsignor Luigi Giussani, will begin next May 9. This announcement was communicated by the Archdiocese and, a few minutes later, by the Communion and Liberation Press Office. ...
I encountered CL during a time of “long loneliness,” as Dorothy Day described in her autobiography. I started graduate school at Auburn University in 2020, and my entire first year was virtual. Despite maintaining long-distance friendships and visiting my...
The Diocese of Milan announced today that on Thursday, May 9, at 5pm in the Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio in Milan, the Archbishop of Milan, His Excellency Monsignor Mario Delpini, will hold the first public session of the Testimonial Phase for the Cause of B...
We started our eight-hour drive as a little expedition, adventuring on the I-70 from Baltimore to the “far West”. With little traffic, listening to good music and with a quiet sense of expectation, we crossed Maryland, reaching the Cumberland and the Appa...
“For the very fact that we live five minutes we affirm the existence of a ‘something”’ which deep down makes living those five minutes worthwhile.” (Chapter 5, The Religious Sense) Recently, some of my friends gathered at a nursing home to sing Irish s...
What can I say? Our friend fresh from radiation and chemotherapy carried the cross to start the procession in the chapel at Franciscan Univeristy. To watch her small body carry the cross was almost to watch metaphor take flesh, or to watch flesh become me...