Sophia University Institute: opening of the 2024-25 academic year
On Tuesday 4 March 2025, the opening ceremony of the 17th academic year took place in the main hall of the Sophia University Institute in Loppiano.
Sophia University Institute: inauguration of the 17th academic year
Fabio Petito, Professor of International Relations at the University of Sussex, will deliver the prologue entitled “Dialogue, religions, geopolitics”. Archbishop Gherardo Gambelli of Florence, and Dr. Margaret Karram, President of the Focolare Movement, will take the floor.
A day of celebration and reflection in the name of Renata Borlone
On Sunday 23 February, the little town remembered Renata Borlone, focolarina, co-responsible of Loppiano and servant of God, on the 35th anniversary of her death.
“We’re stardust”
Astrophysicist Marco Bersanelli, winner of the Renata
Borlone Prize 2023, takes us on a journey to the origins
of the universe and life.
To Marco Bersanelli the Renata Borlone Prize 2023
On Sunday 26 February 2023, a ceremony was held to award the ‘Renata Borlone 2023’ prize to Professor Marco Bersanelli
She knew how to make herself small
Sandro Bosio, who arrived in Loppiano in the 1980s to spend a fortnight there and never left, tells us about “his” Renata Borlone.