Fraternity and mission

«Fraternity and mission» is the magazine of the St. Charles Fraternity. Since 1995, it has collected witnesses and meditations from our missionaries.

  • Testimonies

A yes lived together

The Missionary Sisters of St. Charles just marked 20 years from their founding. Since then, four houses of mission have sprung up, located in Italy, France, Kenya and the United States.

  • Filippo Boscagli
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The Power of the Cross

The sacrifice of Christ on the Cross saves us and sends us into the world to witness to this saving love: the homily given by Cardinal Sean O’Malley during the Mass for the Exaltation of the Cross, which coincided with the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Fraternity of St. Charles, at their house of mission in St. Paul, MN.

  • Card. Sean O'Malley
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40th Anniversary at St. Peter

Mass and gala dinner for the 40th anniversary of St. Charles Fraternity, featuring Card. Sean O'Malley and Msgr. Bernard Hebda.

  • St. Paul
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The rule of love

Love of God, love of family, love for the world: these are the three pillars of the experience recounted by this book. The afterword by Msgr. Massimo Camisasca.

  • Massimo Camisasca
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Forty Years of History

The celebration for the 40th anniversary of the Saint Charles Fraternity and the 20th anniversary of the Missionaries.

  • Rome
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Retreat in Camaldoli

The House of Formation began the new social year with a retreat in the Tuscan Apennines.

  • Camaldoli
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Someone awaits you

From pain and anger, to the search for someone who can remind young people of the reason why life is worth living.

  • Giuseppe Cassina
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That voice on the plain

Walking with a young man in his discovery of the voice of God: a testimony from Colombia.

  • Ezio Longoni
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  • Meditations

“It is I, do not fear!”

On the occasion of the priestly ordinations of the Fraternity of St. Charles, a meditation from the rector of the House of Formation.

  • Donato Contuzzi
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Leaving Him space

In pain just as in celebration, the initiative of God generates wonder and silence. A witness from Bogotá.

  • Andrea Sidoti
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Living with Intensity

Even in a secular university, there is space for a course on “humanity”: a testimony from the capital of Mexico.

  • Roberto Zocco
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Gratitude!

The occasion of a dinner among friends to remember the encounters and the gifts of a past year.

  • Teresa Zampogna
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Twenty Five Years of “Centro”

Twenty five years have passed since the Diocese of Rome entrusted the Youth Center of Colle Oppio to the care of the Fraternity of St. Charles. In this article, we revisit this quarter of a century.

  • Alessandro Banfi
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Vocation is in the present

On Saturday, June 21, in Rome, three young men were ordained priests. This is the story of how the Lord called Tommaso, who is one of them.

  • Tommaso Benzoni
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“Do you love me?”

The vocation story of Andrea, who was ordained a priest on June 21 together with two other brother deacons.

  • Andrea La Piana
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Now or never

The journey towards the priesthood of Fr. Simone, who received Holy Orders on Saturday June 21 together with Tommaso Benzoni and Andrea La Piana.

  • Simone Moretti
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Ordinations 2025

Three new priests and a deacon for the Fraternity of St. Charles: Mexico City, Nairobi, Rome and Turin are their destinations.

  • Roma
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First Mass

The first Mass of Tommaso Benzoni, Simone Moretti and Andrea La Piana, the new priests of the Fraternity of St. Charles.

  • Roma
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