23 January 2026
“It is not abstract thinking that will make us grow or broaden our mind, but the discovery in humanity of a moment of truth that we have reached and articulated. This is the great inversion of the method that marks the passage from the religious sense to faith: no longer a search brimming with unknowns, but the surprise of a fact that has occurred in the history of mankind”
[from the Preface by Luigi Giussani]
All’origine della pretesa cristiana: Volume secondo del PerCorso. Prefazione di Kevin Joseph Farrell. Saggi. Milano: BUR Rizzoli, 2025.
Roma, January 12, 2026, Aula magna Pontificia Università Urbaniana
Speakers: H.E. Msgr. Andrea Bellandi, Archbishop of Salerno-Campagna-Acerno; Gian Guido Vecchi, Vatican journalist of Corriere della Sera; Davide Prosperi, President of the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation. Moderator: Valentina Frigerio, Head of Digital Communications at Communion and Liberation.
Los orígenes de la pretensión cristiana: Curso básico de cristianismo: Volumen 2. Prólogo de Kevin Joseph Farrell. Traducción de María José Rodríguez Fierro, Vicente Martín Pindado y Manuel Oriol Salgado. 100XUNO, 149. Madrid: Ediciones Encuentro, 2025.
Madrid, November 24, 2025, Espacio Pablo VI
A conversation with José Miguel García, Rector of Fondazione Sacro Cuore, Milan. Moderator: Yolanda Menéndez, Editor-in-Chief of Huellas magazine.
Milan, November 16, 2025, 12:30 p.m.
Milanese Philological Circle - Liberty Hall
via Clerici 10, Milan
- Free admission -
With Davide Prosperi, Alessandro Sallusti and Letizia Bardazzi
At the heart of 1968, amid protests and a desire for change, Fr. Luigi Giussani pointed to the Church as the source of every authentic human attempt to respond to the need for truth, justice, love, and freedom. Eleven unpublished lessons, still capable of addressing the restlessness of today’s men and women.
Speakers: Davide Prosperi, President of the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation, and Alessandro Sallusti, Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper Il Giornale.
Moderator: Letizia Bardazzi, President of the Italian Association of Cultural Centers.
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13 November 2025
[A face in history: the mission of the Church in the world (1969-1970)]
Rizzoli, 2025
“Faith” is not a theory for a Christian, it is the acknowledgment of an event, of a reality that has happened and continues to happen, it is the acknowledgment of the reality of Christ, of His continuity in history, that is, of the mystery of Christian communion.
Luigi Giussani
This volume collects the unpublished transcriptions of eleven lessons the Author gave to the young members of the Charles Péguy Cultural Center in Milan from March 1969 to June 1970. In these lessons, Fr. Giussani points to the Church as the source of every authentic human attempt to respond to the need for truth, justice, love and freedom.
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Please note the meeting under the title “A face in history that continues to happen”
Tuesday, August 26, 3 p.m. - Auditorium isybank D3
Speakers: Margaret Karram, President of the Focolare Movement; Davide Prosperi, President of the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation; René Roux, Dean of the Faculty of Theology of Lugano.
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30 July 2025
“We need to give back to our needs their full breadth” (LEV, p. 33). This means to regain hope. Hope, my friends, has a face. [...] hope is a face, hope has a name. This is what Paul writes to Timothy, “Jesus Christ, our hope.”
[from the talk by Msgr. Rino Fisichella]
Rome, June 5, 2025 - Sala Pio X
Speakers: H.E. Msgr. Rino Fisichella, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization; Davide Prosperi, President of the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation.
Moderator: Fr. Andrea D’Auria, Director of the International Center of Communion and Liberation.
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Turin, May 15, 2025 - Book Fair
Speakers: Msgr. Massimo Camisasca, Bishop Emeritus of Reggio Emilia–Guastalla; Matteo Lancini, Psychologist and psychotherapist.
Moderator: Paola Bergamini, Editor-in-Chief of Tracce-Litterae Communionis.
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18 June 2025
Milan, May 26, 2025 - Salone Pio XII
Speakers: Fr. Virginio Colmegna, Honorary President of Casa della Carità (House of Charity) of Milan; Gigi De Palo, President of the Natality Foundation; Davide Prosperi, President of the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation; Paolo Rodari, Vatican journalist and writer; testimony of a family from the Welcoming Families Association.
Moderator: Luca Sommacal, President of the Welcoming Families Association.
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18 June 2025
L'incontro che accende la speranza [The encounter that awakens hope]
A cura di Davide Prosperi. Prefazione del cardinale Pietro Parolin
Città del Vaticano: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2025
With the flare of a true educator and in a page of singular freshness, Fr. Giussani invites his young listeners to shun all discouragement and temptation to inaction, “Guys, do not be afraid, do not be afraid! Do not be afraid of failing, of not succeeding. Just as you were not made by yourself, you do not make yourself: you are made by an Other. How do you live? It is an Other who made you, it is an Other who awakens you to being. Instant by instant, you “belong to” an Other! Therefore, do not be afraid of failing, for it is an Other who acts in you”.
(from the Preface by Cardinal Pietro Parolin)
01 June 2025
Il miracolo dell’ospitalità: Conversazioni con le Famiglie per l’Accoglienza [The miracle of hospitality: Conversations with the Welcoming Families Association]
Milano: PIEMME, 2025.
With a new afterword by Davide Prosperi
01 June 2025
L’attrattiva Gesù: Volume terzo [The Attraction of Jesus: Volume Three]
Saggi: Quasi Tischreden
Milano: BUR Rizzoli, 2025.
The Tischreden series, “table talks”, bring together conversations of the Author with a group of Memores Domini; they consist of more than two hundred meetings held on an approximately weekly basis since 1990 and collected by themes.
27 May 2025
New York Encounter, a weekend of public discussions, exhibits and live performances organized by Communion and Liberation USA, took place from February 14-16, 2025.
We report the following events related to Luigi Giussani’s writings and thought
A LIFE RICH IN MUSIC
Friday, February 14
Piano concert in memory of Fr. Luigi Giussani, accompanied by his reflections on music collected in the volume Spirto Gentil: An Invitation to Listen to Great Music with Luigi Giussani, available in bookstores from February 18.
The concert featured the participation of Kuok-Wai Lio, classical pianist, and Deniz Demirer, actor, introduced by Pier Paolo Bellini, Professor of Sociology, University of Molise and the curator of the Spirto Gentil music series, and Christopher Vath, musician.
NO LONGER JUST A PROMISE
Saturday, February 15
A conversation on the book In Search of the Human Face by Fr. Luigi Giussani, available in bookstores from February 18.
Speakers included: Michael Hanby, Associate Professor of Religion and Philosophy of Science, Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family, Washington, DC; John Milbank, President of the Centre of Theology and Philosophy, The University of Nottingham; Aaron Riches, Professor of Theology, Benedictine College.
20 February 2025
We highlight the video of the presentation of Luigi Giussani’s podcast “And who do you say that I am?”, which took place last February 3 in the auditorium of the National Library of Rome.
Introductory greeting: Fr. Andrea D'Auria, director of the International Center of Communion and Liberation.
Speakers included: His Excellency Erik Varden, bishop of Trondheim (Norway); Alessandro Sortino, journalist and writer.
Moderator: Mattia Ferraresi, journalist and writer.
Read the article by Valentina Frigerio published on clonline.org.
The podcast, produced by the Fraternity of CL with Chora Media, is available on Spotify and major audio platforms: a journey in eight episodes that will allows us to identify ourselves, through his living voice, with the events and humanity of the protagonists of the Gospel.
05 February 2025
