“Sharing in suffering is the first step toward healing.” (Blessed Don Carlo Gnocchi)

“Every human life carries within it a word from God that asks to be welcomed, to be heard.” (Don Vincenzo Barbante)

Father Carlo Gnocchi continues to live on in the Foundation that bears his name: not as a monument to the past, but as a presence capable of guiding the future. In this book, an interview with the Foundation’s president, Father Vincenzo Barbante, highlights one of the great strengths of Italian healthcare: a community of doctors, researchers, therapists, and caregivers who, every day, transform care into research, innovation, and compassion for the individual—without forgetting the families of the patients. From rehabilitation to the most complex cases, from new technologies to scientific research, the portrait that emerges is of a Foundation looking toward the future without losing its Christian soul. In the background, the luminous figure of Don Gnocchi—priest and Alpine soldier, a man of faith and action—continues to point the way: to alleviate suffering, restore dignity, and unite science and humanity.