Stories - 2024

Tara Isabella Burton, Fr. Patrick Gilger, and Stephen Adubato's panel at the Encounter (Ana Emilia Hernandez)

The Totality of the Question

StoriesEmily Lehman

An interview with Tara Isabella Burton, a panelist at the New York Encounter’s “Can the Soul Remain Open When Life Settles In?” in conversation with Fr. Patrick Gilger and Stephen Adubato

Photo: Bethany Beck via Unsplash

An Act of Forgiveness

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Sometimes an answer to prayer comes through unexpected channels, in the course of everyday charitable work.

Courtesy of Angel studios

Not Enough Jesus

StoriesBarbara Gagliotti

A review of the new film Cabrini by Angel Studios

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A Consciousness Awake to Reality

StoriesHannah Keegan

The poet Christian Wiman opened the New York Encounter highlighting this year’s theme: “Tearing Open the Sleeping Soul.” The following morning we sat down for a conversation with him.

Luca Fiammenghi / Fraternità di CL

The Voice of a History

StoriesPaola Ronconi

Pippo Molino, musician and composer, describes in a recent book the place of singing in the movement: “It is born in a living community. It is one with the experience we have. And a choir is pure charity.” From the January issue of Tracce.

"Morning Sun" by Edward Hopper

A True Realist

StoriesStephen E. Lewis

This month’s “Book of the Month” is The End of the Affair, published in 1951 by the twentieth-century English novelist Graham Greene.

Education and the Road to Destiny

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The Tampa Bay Community hosted a panel to discuss the content of The Risk of Education and saw firsthand the grace of the charism given by the Holy Spirit to Fr. Giussani

A Unique Lens

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The friends that organized the Leonard Cohen exhibit at the 2024 New York Encounter share their judgment on the work.

Living the Liturgy

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A book including Fr. Giussani’s meditations on the liturgy is now available in English through Slant Books

A Friendship Full of Wonder

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Friends in Houston, TX host a cultural event discussing the role of wonder in the dynamics of knowing.

The Net

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A new publication by Human Adventure Books addresses the question: “How can you save someone who doesn’t want to be saved?”

Spirto Gentil Society

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Changed by the friendship with a couple that moved away, Bill and his wife decide to open their home with the hope of meeting and embracing more of these friends.

This Little Flame

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“These days of knowing the Movement have educated me to a wovenness with the lives of others that is new for me.”

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God Was Waiting For Me

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Invited to reconsider the value of Charitable Work, Laura begins a journey and experiences God’s caress.

An Inextinguishable Source of Unity

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After seeing his friends, Massimo is left “with a bigger desire, and a simple prayer to learn to recognize Him wherever I am, whomever I’m with.”