Editing Focolare Movement (section)

==Interreligious dialogue==
[[File:Interreligious Dialogue.jpg|thumb|Interreligious dialogue at the International Mariapolis Center in Rome]]
Chiara Lubich possessed "an almost prophetic capacity to intuit and actualise before hand the thought of the Pope", said in a letter Pope Benedict XVI read out by Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, at Chiara Lubich’s funeral Mass in 2008.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Letter to Card. Tarcisio Bertone on the occasion of the Funeral Mass for Chiara Lubich, Foundress of the Work of Mary - Focolare Movement (March 18, 2008) {{!}} BENEDICT XVI |url=https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/letters/2008/documents/hf_ben-xvi_let_20080318_chiara-lubich.html |access-date=2025-02-06 |website=www.vatican.va}}</ref> Pope John Paul II put his finger on one example recognising "the radicalism of love of Chiara, of the Focolarini," – a "Gospel radicalism of love" – as an answer to what had long been his concern for a hate-dominated world.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Judith Povilus |date=2020 |title=The Prophetic Insight of Chiara Lubich: The Word that is Love |journal=MELITA THEOLOGICA - Journal of the Faculty of Theology |volume=70 |issue=1 |pages=23–25}}</ref> But beyond Christianity, Chiara Lubich’s spiritual experience of kenosis led her to be open to the presence of God in other religions, and in a spirituality of openness she started and pushed on dialogue. This in turn led people of other faiths to find a home in the Focolare movement.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Donald W. MITCHELL |date=2013 |title=The Mystical Theology of Chiara Lubich: a Foundation for Interreligious Dialogue in East Asia |journal=Fu Jen International Religious Studies |volume=7.1 |pages=1–20}}</ref>

While unity was in the Christian sphere the key attraction (for all Christians, since its source is in the Gospel of John), forsakeness/suffering was the appeal for dialogue with people of other faiths or with people without faith.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Young |first=Robert |date=2019-05-02 |title=The Forsaken Jesus and the Black Sun of Atheism |url=https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/claritas/vol8/iss1/6/ |journal=Claritas: Journal of Dialogue and Culture |volume=8 |issue=1 |issn=2163-5552}}</ref>

Today the Focolare Movements define 5 dialogues:

- First Dialogue, dialogue inside the Catholic Church realities in communion<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rinunce e nomine |url=https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2023/11/25/0828/01795.html |access-date=2025-02-06 |website=press.vatican.va}}</ref>

- Second Dialogue, dialogue between the various churches of Christianity<ref>{{Cite web |title=Together 4 Europe |url=https://together4europe.org/en/ |access-date=2025-02-06 |website=together4europe.org |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Ecumenism and the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity |url=https://www.focolare.org/en/ecumenism-and-the-week-of-prayer-for-christian-unity/ |access-date=2025-02-06 |website=Movimento dei Focolari |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Riccardi |title=A fourth pathway ecumenical dialogue: the dialogue of life |url=https://chiaralubich.org/en/archivio-scritti-en/a-fourth-pathway-ecumenical-dialogue-the-dialogue-of-life/ |access-date=2025-02-06 |website=Chiara Lubich |language=en-US}}</ref>

- Third Dialogue, dialogue with anyone who believes in some spirituality/faith<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-06-11 |title=Interreligious Dialogue |url=https://www.focolaremedia.com/magazine/content/interreligious-dialogue?srsltid=AfmBOoqn3n_0UeExVxgBHMgyft-R2TNyW8NIMrT8QbH1dF7bFPFn_EYP |access-date=2025-02-06 |website=Focolare Media |language=en}}</ref>

- Fourth Dialogue, dialogue with anyone who does not believe in any spirituality/faith

- Fifth Dialogue, dialogue within the contemporary culture's challenges, risks and opportunities.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Brasil |first=edc |date=2024-06-19 |title=#Brazil: The EoC will be present in all three phases of Genfest |url=https://www.edc-online.org/en/home-en/news/19464-brazil-the-eoc-will-be-present-in-all-three-phases-of-genfest.html |access-date=2025-02-06 |website=www.edc-online.org |language=en-gb}}</ref>