The Remedy for Spiritual Senility

Giordani’s challenge to the new generations

Abstract

This article examines a period in the public life of the Italian politician and author Igino Giordani, with particular attention on his personality and the many activities in which he was engaged in the years prior to his meeting with Chiara Lubich. His meeting with the latter represented the beginning of profound transformations in the life and thought of Giordani. Lubich called him “Foco”, and he was a fundamental figure for the birth and development of the Work of Mary/Focolare Movement, to the extent that he can be considered its co-founder.