
Archbishop Fisichella announces a meeting of ecclesial movements, new communities, associations and lay organizations that will converge on Rome for the feast of Pentecost.

Archbishop Fisichella announces a meeting of ecclesial movements, new communities, associations and lay organizations that will converge on Rome for the feast of Pentecost.

The festival where Christians recall the ‘descent’ of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles and Mary is near. We offer a passage by Igino Giordani that opens up real spiritual depths.

A 10th course on inculturation has taken place at Mariapolis Piero’s Centre for Inculturation in Nairobi, Kenya. The 287 participants included clergy, laity and young people from all the geographic region of the African continent.

Two thousand attend a forum on active citizenship training, promoted by a Manila parish just before local elections.


The Ecclesial Movements and New Communities were called together for the first time on May 30, 1998, by Pope John Paul II. We propose a video-clip of this historical meeting in preparation for the upcoming meeting with Pope Francis.

One month following the death of one of Chiara Lubich’s closest collaborators, we offer a brief overview of his life, in his own words.