This past Saturday, the New York Community held a picnic with a few of our friends from Tuesday Night Food Runs at Grand Central and families from the Community run School of Peace. With more than 35 attendees it was a great day had by all.
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Francis visit cements Sant’Egidio as winner
By John L. Allen Jr. of The Boston Globe ROME – Political categories are an inexact fit for religious realities, but if we’re going to use them anyway, it’s tough to spot a bigger winner in Catholicism under Pope Francis than the Community of Sant’Egidio, whose commitment to the poor, to inter-religious dialogue, and to […]
Peace, fight against religious intolerance and the death penalty at the centre of the A delegation of the Community of Sant’Egidio led by Marco Impagliazzo went to the United Nations headquarters in New York, where it was welcomed by the Deputy Secretary-General, Ian Eliasson, with whom the Community has collaborated for many years. Marco Impagliazzo […]
Today Andrea Riccardi was awarded the Honoris Causa degree in Humane Letters by the Catholic University of America. The ceremony was held during the opening session of the 125th academic year of the Ateneo, founded by the American episcopate and recognised as a Pontifical University by the Vatican. In the reasons for the recognition, conferred […]
Brinton Wood Nursing Home together with the U.S. Community of Sant’Egidio Many friends of the U.S. Community of Sant’Egidio met at the Brinton Wood Nursing Home where Bishop Vincenzo Paglia celebrated the Sunday liturgy. The liturgy was also attended by Andrea Riccardi and Marco Impagliazzo who later had a friendly and joyous meeting with the […]