Abstract
This article traces the brief history of the Italian Catholic movement, Comunione e Liberazione, founded in the early seventies in Milan by Don Luigi Giussani. The author presents certain ambiguous aspects of the movement, which appears as a right-wing political force through its program envisioning the restauration of a medieval church present on every level of social life. The contradiction of Comunione e Liberazione particularly appears in the abusive treatment the movement makes of " the organic intellectual," a concept borrowed from Gramsci.