Friends engage in a dialogue on The Anxious Generation, starting from experience and not from fear
While driving through Yosemite National Park in June, my husband and I listened to an interview with Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious Generation, on the podcast “Honestly” with Bari Weiss. We are parents to six children and our oldest is 13. We have ...
“Each School of Community is about remembering that I am called, sent, to go on the mission of working on and discovering myself.”
There is only one reason that beginning again helps us to not lose gusto for the journey – because the beginning always contains the criterion of everything. The beginning is a gift, a preference, just as the beginning of life is an unmerited gift, it is ...
Remembering Cardinal Renato Martino, an old friend of Communion and Liberation to whom we owe gratitude and affection
Cardinal Renato Martino passed away this fall on October 28. He is an old friend of Communion and Liberation to whom we owe gratitude and affection. But who was Renato Martino?
He had been the Apostolic Nuncio to Thailand and to Singapore, the Apostol...
Friends in Columbus, OH host a presentation on The Risk of Education with the apostolic nuncio
Over the course of the summer, the CL community of Columbus, Ohio met virtually with old and new friends from the greater Midwest area to read and discuss Fr. Giussani’s book The Risk of Education. The original aim of this initiative was to prepare a publ...
Martino shares his experience of the North America Assembly recently held in Estes Park, CO
I cannot say that I had a complete awareness of the reasons why I decided to go to the North America Assembly this year. Actually, I think I could only say that I had about a 2.5% awareness of the reasons. I felt more like I was mysteriously called. The...
An introduction to the November Book of the Month: The Relevance of the Stars by Msgr. Albacete
Among the many characters of film, TV, and literature that accompanied the life of Msgr. Lorenzo Albacete was Don Quixote, “Man of La Mancha.” I never spoke with him about the famous character, but I can imagine some reasons why Monsignor must have loved ...