In the last chapter of Thomas Cahill's book, Desire of the Everlasting Hills, published 1999, he writes about the church of Trastevere. He writes, "This is the heart of an ecumenical community of laypeople, founded in 1968 by a handful of Roman high school students, who decided during that year of student uprisings throughout Western Europe that they, too, wanted to do something revolutionary...............They wished to live in Rome as the early Christians had lived there." He goes on to describe their life of prayer and service not only in Rome, but in similar communities established worldwide.
Does anyone have current information about the community in Rome, their service to the poor and marginalized, how one might get in touch with them?
Thank you.