On the 30th day of his passing, we are commemorating the great figure of a man, father, deputy, and focolarino, who in the rowdy world of politics and beyond was able to bear witness to the values in which he believed and for which he worked to the very end..
Last 24 April, Tommaso Sorgi “passed away peacefully after a long life wholly dedicated to the Church, in the Work of Mary and for the good of humanity.” This was the communication diffused by the Focolare Movement on the death of the most elected politician of the...
During this time of political crisis, Igino Giordani and Tommaso Sorgi encourage us to work on all levels of society to bring democracy back to its very essence –that is to “we”.
Many people consider Igino Giordani a pioneer of ecumenism. At the conclusion of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity we offer the following considerations by Tommaso Sorgi, who is his principle scholar and biographer.
Giordani left this world on April 18, 1980. We remember him through the words of his great friend, a former member of the Italian Parliament,Tommaso Sorgi, who was the first director of the Igino Giordani Centre and author of his first biographies.
In the month dedicated to Mary, Tommaso Sorgi, former member of the Italian Parliament and first director of the Igino Giordani Centre, helps us to deepen our understanding of Giordani’s rapport with the Mother of Jesus.
As the European Elections get closer, we offer Igino Giordani’s prophetic vision on the union of the European States, dated 1925, taken from a recently edited book by Tommaso Sorgi.
L’abbiamo chiesto al prof. Alberto Lo Presti e alla dott.ssa Elena Merli del Centro Igino Giordani che ha curato la stesura di “Igino Giordani un eroe disarmato” (Città Nuova Ed.)
On 11 November 2017, at the conference centre in Castel Gandolfo (Rome), the cause for the beatification and sanctification of the Italian politician, Domenico Mangano, was inaugurated through a Mass celebrated by Cardinal João Braz de Aviz, Prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. The request to initiate the cause was received by the Bishop of Albano, Msgr. Marcello Semeraro.
An original project by a couple in Southern Italy plants a seed of communion for many, even as far as away as up north in Trent. “Small is beautiful,” you might say.
