There is nothing culturally
more revolutionary than
this conception of the person,
whose meaning,
whose substanceis unity
with Christ,
with an Other,
and through this,
a unity with all those
whom
He seizes,
with all those
whom the Father puts
into His hands.
Fr. Luigi Giussani
Riccione, Italy,
October 1976
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Crossroads Cultural Center was born in New York in
Fall 2004 as the initiative of four friends who are members
of Communion and
Liberation, the international movement
in the Roman Catholic Church that was founded 50 years
ago by Monsignor Luigi Giussani and was defined by Pope
John Paul II, as "one of the beautiful fruits of the Holy Sprit
for the Entire Church".
At the roots of Crossroads there is a shared interest for
culture and the desire to communicate the remarkable
vastness, openness, richness, and profundity of the cultural
life and passion for what is human that springs from the
education to the Catholic faith taking place in Communion
and Liberation.
This life in fact has given birth, among many other initiatives,
to the Meeting
for friendship among peoples, which has been
held every year since 1980 in Rimini, Italy, for one week in
the second half of August and that is the most well attended
summer festival of culture, seminars, music and
entertainment in all the world. This gathering has been
a great inspiration for Crossroads.
What characterizes Crossroads Cultural Center as Catholic
cultural center is that particular ability, that can come from
the event of Christ present here and now in His Church, to
encounter people and to look for, and give value to,
everything that is true, good and worthy of praise in all the
expressions of human life. Therefore, the suggestion of Saint
Paul - "Test everything, retain what is good" (1 Thess. 5:21)
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sums up the ideal of Crossroads much more than any
pre-determined subset of issues or people who fall under the
‘Catholic’ label.
With this passion and with this cultural horizon , we have
begun our adventure.
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