Minding sharing some light on Comunione e Liberazione

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SO I have heard of this group, which I believe the pope is part of and many faithful Catholics as well. I was wondering how it started, and whether it is orthodox in Catholic teaching? I went to the website to see if you can sign up or find information on them but I only few a few things.

I heard that they started out in Italy and that they want to re-Catholicize the modern world, such as bringing back the culture of the Medieval times, but don’t know much else besides that.

Any bit of information would be helpful
 
They seem to be bigger in some other countries, especially Italy, than they are in the United States.

My knowledge of them comes mainly from two sources. One is a roommate I had for a brief time, an Italian who was a member of the organization. He seemed to be a very solid, faithful Catholic.

The other is a book this roommate gave me when he went back to Italy, and a sequel to that book which I then bought (the third part of the series I think I’ll start reading very soon). They were written by the founder of the organization, Msgr. Luigi Giussani and called The Religious Sense and At the Origin of the Christian Claim. The one I want to read next is Why the Church?.

The books use what sometimes seemed to me excessively sophisticated (it almost seemed pseudo-sophisticated) language, though maybe this made more sense in the original Italian and something was lost in translation or in moving from one culture to another. The titles of the first two books can actually give you a sense of that style.

As far as the content goes it was very intellectually stimulating, and though I sometimes disagreed I’m beginning to think that on some of those points he may have been right after all. While it was from a very modern philosophical and cultural viewpoint, and so not likely to be the cup of tea for “Traditionalists,” there was nothing that struck me as heterodox. Also I recall seeing him quoted approvingly by Cardinal Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI. Indeed I would speculate those two were probably significant influences on each other.
 
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