to create cultural, charitable and entrepreneurial works linked together in the Company of Works which has offices in Italy and abroad. These include sheltered homes for the mentally ill, drug-dependants, the disabled, AIDS patients and the terminally ill; companies to provide employment for the disabled; NGOs (AVSI in Italy and CESAL in Spain) to provide assistance and foster the development of poor countries; foundations such as the Food Bank, which provides daily food to over one million poor people in Italy, and the Pharmaceutical Bank; solidarity Centres to assist the unemployed in seeking a job; welfare facilities in children’s prisons in Africa and America; aid for needy families and finding homes for people in difficulty. The initiatives that have emerged in the field of culture have become aspecial place for ensuring that the pooling of different experiences is an opportunity for every individual to communicate their own proprium regarding the Christian event: cultural centres, schools (often created by parents’ cooperatives), publishing houses, publishing and newspaper initiatives; foundations and academic institutions; international conferences, such as the Meeting for Friendship among Peoples. The Sacred Heart Foundation in Milan is directly dependent upon the Fraternity, as a non-profit entity which manages schools, and works for the promotion and protection of free education, consistent with the Christian tradition and the teaching of the Church.

PUBLICATIONS

Traces Litterae Communionis, a monthly magazine in Italian, French, English, Polish, Portuguese/Brazilian, Russian, German and Spanish; Piccole Tracce, a magazine for children published every two months.