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Comunione e Liberazione | |
Formation | 1954[1] |
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Founder | Luigi Giussani |
Founded at | Milan, Italy |
Type | Catholic lay movement[2] |
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Website | it |
Communion and Liberation (Italian: Comunione e Liberazione, often shortened to CL), since 1980 officially Fraternity of Communion and Liberation[3] (Italian: Fraternità di Comunione e Liberazione), it is an international Catholic movement founded in 1954 by Fr. Luigi Giussani[4] as Student Youth (Gioventù Studentesca), with the aim of presenting the Christian event in a way which is in tune with contemporary culture, making it a source of new values for the modern world.[5] The movement is currently present in ninety countries on nearly every continent.[6]
The name "Communion and Liberation" first appeared in 1969, and it synthesizes the conviction that the Christian event, lived in "communion" is the foundation of man's authentic "liberation".