Editing Communion and Liberation (section)

{{short description|Lay Italian Catholic ecclesial movement}}
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| name                = Communion and Liberation
| native_name         = Comunione e Liberazione
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| founder             = [[Luigi Giussani]]
| founding_location   = [[Milan]], [[Italy]]
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'''Communion and Liberation''' ({{langx|it|Comunione e Liberazione}}, often shortened to '''CL'''), since 1980 officially '''Fraternity of Communion and Liberation'''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.laityfamilylife.va/content/laityfamilylife/en/sezione-laici/repertorio/fraternita-di-comunione-e-liberazione-.html|title=Fraternity of Communion and Liberation|website=Laityfamilylife.va|access-date=August 15, 2019}}</ref> ({{langx|it|Fraternità di Comunione e Liberazione|links=no}}), it is an international [[Catholic lay organisations|Catholic movement]] founded in 1954 by Fr. [[Luigi Giussani]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://english.clonline.org/cl/t218/historical-timeline|title=Historical Timeline|date=2016-06-27|work=English|access-date=2018-07-23|language=EN}}</ref> as '''Student Youth''' ({{lang|it|Gioventù Studentesca}}), with the aim of presenting the [[Christians|Christian]] event in a way which is in tune with contemporary culture, making it a source of new values for the modern world.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/letters/2004/documents/hf_jp-ii_let_20040420_msgr-giussani.pdf|title=LETTER OF JOHN PAUL II TO MSGR. LUIGI GIUSSANI ON THE OCCASION OF THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE MOVEMENT "COMMUNION AND LIBERATION"|first=John |last=Paul II|date=February 22, 2004|website=Vatican}}</ref> The movement is in ninety countries on nearly every continent.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://english.clonline.org/cl|title=The Christian Proposal as the Adventure of Life|date=2016-06-27|work=English|access-date=2018-07-23|language=EN}}</ref>

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".