Carmine Di Martino, Full Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of Milan; Timothy P. O’Malley, Director of Education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life and Academic Director of the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy, University of Notre Dame; Monica Scholz-Zappa, Lecturer in Linguistic and Cultural Sciences at Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg. Moderated by Alberto Savorana, Head of Editorial Activities at Communion and Liberation. 

In his speech on October 15, 2022, on the centenary of Luigi Giussani’s birth, Pope Francis highlighted the “pedagogical and theological genius” of Luigi Giussani. The uniqueness of his expression is remarkable. While the young Giussani’s unstoppable passion for communication and testimony led him to abandon the academic path and immerse himself in the educational adventure, he did not renounce the coherent development of his thinking. The novelty of his proposal, which surprised and impacted the educational world in Milan and Italy from the mid-1950s onwards, precisely relates to the originality of his thought. This thought found further development in the experience of the growing Communion and Liberation movement, which is now present in over ninety countries worldwide, and in the continuous dialogue with generations of young people (and later adults) from all walks of life. The terms of this proposal reveal their essential and prophetic character even more today.