Cristina Tersigni
Born in 1969, in 2003 Mariangela Bertolini asked Cristina to collaborate on the special issue about Faith and Light: Cristina was on the National Council of the association and was a useful liaison between the Italian communities – whose life and bonds were to be told – and the editorial office. Then the moment extended: with Tea she began editing texts, with Huberta following readers, with Nicole and Natalia imagining new themes, with Laura learning from Sergio the cut and paste of the newspaper. Above all, Mariangela who with her heart read the world with incredible clarity. And she taught how to tell the mystery of possible good in the unexpected. Member of Faith and Light since 1988; graduated in psychology from La Sapienza University in Rome in 1996. Married since 1995 to Giovanni, they have four children and have lived in Rome since 2000. Since 2014 she is the editorial coordinator of the magazine.
Articles
Culture
Women of Another World | A Book Review
Cristina Tersigni • January 31, 2026
Culture
Sketch. Fleeting Reality | Book Review
Cristina Tersigni • January 31, 2026
Editorial · Faith and Light
Stopping, Choosing, Making a Difference
Cristina Tersigni • January 26, 2026
Faith and Light
A Thousand Colors on Stage: Communities in Motion at Pompei
Cristina Tersigni • January 26, 2026
Faith and Light
"I Decided"
Cristina Tersigni • January 26, 2026
Family
Two Days, Many Questions
Cristina Tersigni • November 17, 2025
Family
Welcome at Rome's Gates
Cristina Tersigni • November 17, 2025
Editorial · Education
Nourishing Dreams
Cristina Tersigni • November 1, 2025
Interview · Faith and Light
Why We Do What We Do
Cristina Tersigni • November 1, 2025
Review · Culture
Slow Steps | Book Review
Cristina Tersigni • October 10, 2025
Editorial · Faith and Light
My son has friends
Cristina Tersigni • July 25, 2025
Testimonial · Faith and Light
Here and Now
Cristina Tersigni • May 14, 2025
Review · Culture
Fast Forward: A Journey Into ADHD | Podcast Review
Cristina Tersigni • February 12, 2025
Interview · Faith and Light
A Vitamin Among the People
Cristina Tersigni • February 7, 2025
Editorial · Family
Small but Decisive
Cristina Tersigni • February 7, 2025
Review · Culture
Living with Difference | Book Review
Cristina Tersigni • November 26, 2024
Faith and Light
Walking Together With You
Cristina Tersigni • November 26, 2024
Spirituality
Unbind Him
Cristina Tersigni • November 26, 2024
Projects
A Vision Worthy of Our Humanity
Cristina Tersigni • October 16, 2024
Review · Culture
The Land of the Mad | Podcast Review
Cristina Tersigni • August 28, 2024
Faith and Light
The Word Made Flesh
Cristina Tersigni • August 26, 2024
Projects
What If We Rethought the Shopping Trip?
Cristina Tersigni • August 26, 2024
Editorial · Family
A Good Start
Cristina Tersigni • August 26, 2024
Review · Culture
Eighteen | Book Review
Cristina Tersigni • August 16, 2024
Family
A Keychain Just Like Mine
Cristina Tersigni • June 19, 2024
Interview · Family
Victories and Struggles
Cristina Tersigni • May 14, 2024
Projects
Pippo's Kitchen
Cristina Tersigni • February 19, 2024
Health
The Dentist's Chair
Cristina Tersigni • February 19, 2024
Faith and Light
Care and Civilization
Cristina Tersigni • February 16, 2024
Review · Culture
God's Shoulders: A Review
Cristina Tersigni • November 12, 2023
Health
A Right Too Often Denied
Cristina Tersigni • October 12, 2023
Projects
An Erasmus Year of Faith and Light
Cristina Tersigni • October 11, 2023
Editorial · Projects
Why Health Really Matters
Cristina Tersigni • September 22, 2023
Projects
Through Half-Closed Shutters
Cristina Tersigni • August 16, 2023
Editorial · Culture
Where Are We?
Cristina Tersigni • July 17, 2023
Faith and Light
Alfedena in Pictures
Cristina Tersigni • June 16, 2023
Projects
#DisabledMothers
Cristina Tersigni • March 8, 2023
Review · Culture
In God's Image? – A Book Review
Cristina Tersigni • February 8, 2023
Projects
Bari's Shining Path
Cristina Tersigni • January 31, 2023
Projects
Rewriting the Problem: How a Father and Son Found Joy on Two Wheels
Cristina Tersigni • January 25, 2023
Projects
Bologna to Rome: Pedaling Possibilities in The Rainbow Community's Tandem Journey
Cristina Tersigni • January 18, 2023
Editorial · Education
Hope in Many Keys
Cristina Tersigni • December 15, 2022
Projects
DIS/Integration: Art from Sant'Egidio's Workshops
Cristina Tersigni • November 30, 2022
Review · Culture
Everyone Laughs Their Own Way — Book Review
Cristina Tersigni • October 21, 2022
Projects
The Revolution of the Knife
Cristina Tersigni • October 17, 2022
Culture
Uncommon Productions
Cristina Tersigni • October 11, 2022
Editorial · Family
Blank Pages
Cristina Tersigni • October 5, 2022
Review · Culture
Modus Navigandi – A Review
Cristina Tersigni • July 14, 2022
Editorial · Family
Why?
Cristina Tersigni • July 14, 2022
Projects
Everyone Gives, Everyone Receives
Cristina Tersigni • June 22, 2022
Culture
Travelers as Community
Cristina Tersigni • March 23, 2022
Health
Jérôme Lejeune
Cristina Tersigni • March 23, 2022
Testimonial · Spirituality
Transforming Lives: A Journey of Hope and Healing in the Heart of the Congo
Cristina Tersigni • February 16, 2022
Interview · Projects
Just South of the Equator
Cristina Tersigni • February 16, 2022
Editorial · Faith and Light
Amazed and Grateful
Cristina Tersigni • February 16, 2022
Family
Learning to Feel by Listening to the Sea
Cristina Tersigni • January 27, 2022
Interview · Family
An Interview with Matteo Mazzarotto and Ivana Perri
Cristina Tersigni • November 29, 2021
Work
Dreams Like Anyone Else's
Cristina Tersigni • October 7, 2021
Work
Behind the Scenes of an Hiring
Cristina Tersigni • September 28, 2021
Review · Culture
The Violence of My Love: Dario Levantino's Novel Examined
Cristina Tersigni • September 15, 2021
Projects
How a Book Can Change Everything
Cristina Tersigni • September 2, 2021
Projects
Tending the Land and the People Left in Your Care
Cristina Tersigni • September 2, 2021
Review · Culture
Fragments of Solitude — A Review
Cristina Tersigni • August 23, 2021
Projects
Tango Tonight?
Cristina Tersigni • July 30, 2021
Editorial · Family
Nine Dots
Cristina Tersigni • July 19, 2021
Review · Culture
I Believe in You: Luca Badetti's Transformative Vision of Disability and Trust
Cristina Tersigni • July 12, 2021
Review · Culture
Beauty in the Mind: Gronchi and Dell'Osso's Testament to Lost Asylums
Cristina Tersigni • June 17, 2021
Spirituality
A Photograph from Hong Kong
Cristina Tersigni • June 17, 2021
Editorial · Family
A Different Story Altogether
Cristina Tersigni • March 31, 2021
Review · Culture
Flesh and Blood for Ghosts
Cristina Tersigni • March 12, 2021
Review · Culture
My Sister Drives Me Crazy
Cristina Tersigni • February 10, 2021
Editorial · Culture
Tickets and Drawings
Cristina Tersigni • January 27, 2021
Family
Cautious, Not Frozen
Cristina Tersigni • January 13, 2021
Projects
Senza Alveare a Natale...
Cristina Tersigni • December 14, 2020
Review · Culture
The Courage to Be Equal
Cristina Tersigni • November 11, 2020
Culture
Hold Her Gaze
Cristina Tersigni • October 7, 2020
Projects
Museum for All
Cristina Tersigni • September 14, 2020
Culture
A Deaf Son's Liberating Revolt
Cristina Tersigni • September 7, 2020
Culture
Art Lover
Cristina Tersigni • August 18, 2020
Editorial · Culture
Nurturing Talent
Cristina Tersigni • August 8, 2020
Review · Culture
Different
Cristina Tersigni • June 30, 2020
Faith and Light
Life at Montemigliore
Cristina Tersigni • April 24, 2020
Review · Culture
The Tender Child
Cristina Tersigni • March 30, 2020
Culture
What Is a Syndrome?
Cristina Tersigni • March 25, 2020
Family
Seeing Yourself in the Window
Cristina Tersigni • March 16, 2020
Family
As Coco Chanel Knew
Cristina Tersigni • February 24, 2020
Culture
Another Way of Seeing
Cristina Tersigni • February 6, 2020
Review · Culture
The Body of Love
Cristina Tersigni • February 6, 2020
Review · Culture
A Father's Eyes
Cristina Tersigni • January 29, 2020
Faith and Light
Building a World Where Everyone Belongs
Cristina Tersigni • January 22, 2020
Review · Inspiring People
Jean Vanier: The Sacrament of Tenderness
Cristina Tersigni • January 8, 2020
Review · Culture
Disability Makes Us Human
Cristina Tersigni • January 6, 2020
Family
A Crack in the Wall
Cristina Tersigni • January 2, 2020
Faith and Light
One of a Kind
Cristina Tersigni • January 2, 2020
Editorial · Family
Shaken and Transformed
Cristina Tersigni • December 2, 2019
Review · Culture
For Everyone, People
Cristina Tersigni • October 29, 2019
Spirituality
Who Tends the Soul?
Cristina Tersigni • October 17, 2019
Inspiring People
The Midwife of New Things
Cristina Tersigni • July 29, 2019
Review · Culture
Life's Great Questions
Cristina Tersigni • July 16, 2019
Family
Stories Worth Keeping
Cristina Tersigni • May 27, 2019
Review · Culture
Isaac: The Imperfect Son
Cristina Tersigni • April 15, 2019
Editorial · Culture
Precious Points of View
Cristina Tersigni • April 3, 2019
Family
Living Longer with Disability
Cristina Tersigni • January 27, 2019
Testimonial · Faith and Light
January 27 — International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Cristina Tersigni • January 27, 2019
Editorial · Faith and Light
In Motion
Cristina Tersigni • January 14, 2019
Interview · Faith and Light
My Name Is Lucia
Cristina Tersigni • November 3, 2018
Family
ANFFAS: Sixty Years Building the Future
Cristina Tersigni • November 3, 2018
Review · Culture
Asperger's Children
Cristina Tersigni • November 1, 2018
Review · Culture
As Long as My Star Shines
Cristina Tersigni • November 1, 2018
Editorial · Culture
Signs of Wonder
Cristina Tersigni • June 30, 2018
Spirituality
Why Sign Language?
Cristina Tersigni • June 30, 2018
Review · Culture
Sofia Cavalletti: A Bridge Between Children and God
Cristina Tersigni • June 30, 2018
Family
How Many Do You Know by Name?
Cristina Tersigni • April 26, 2018
Projects
Rebel Brains — Connecting to Neurodiversity
Cristina Tersigni • March 26, 2018
Editorial · Faith and Light
The Road Behind Us
Cristina Tersigni • December 21, 2017
Projects
Making All Things New
Cristina Tersigni • December 21, 2017
Review · Culture
What Matters Is That He's Healthy
Cristina Tersigni • December 21, 2017
Editorial · Education
Real Connection
Cristina Tersigni • September 6, 2017
Review · Culture
After Us: Proceedings of the ANFFAS Conference
Cristina Tersigni • September 6, 2017
Review · Culture
The Priest Lost His Mind
Cristina Tersigni • September 6, 2017
Editorial · Projects
Building Welcome
Cristina Tersigni • June 28, 2017
Spirituality
Dossier: Refugees
Cristina Tersigni • June 28, 2017
Projects
When Fragility Meets Fragility: Disabled Journalists Report on Migrants
Cristina Tersigni • June 28, 2017
Projects
"It Will Be Beautiful"
Cristina Tersigni • June 28, 2017
Projects
After Us: The Unfinished Work of Italy's New Disability Law
Cristina Tersigni • April 2, 2017
Editorial · Family
Inclusion: Everyday Solidarity
Cristina Tersigni • March 16, 2017
Family
Living Ordinary Lives
Cristina Tersigni • March 16, 2017
Projects
Opening Our Eyes: L'Abilità's Mission
Cristina Tersigni • March 16, 2017
Editorial · Spirituality
Has Anything Really Changed?
Cristina Tersigni • December 16, 2016
Review · Culture
Parents: A Film Review
Cristina Tersigni • December 16, 2016
Review · Culture
Seeing Beyond: Windows on a Story — Book Review
Cristina Tersigni • December 16, 2016
Review · Culture
The Pedagogy of Innocent Suffering — A Review
Cristina Tersigni • December 16, 2016
Editorial · Faith and Light
You Called Us. Here We Are.
Cristina Tersigni • September 16, 2016
Review · Culture
They Gave Me a Dream
Cristina Tersigni • September 16, 2016
Review · Culture
The Seed: A Book Review
Cristina Tersigni • June 16, 2016
Interview · Education
Disability: A Border to Cross
Cristina Tersigni • March 25, 2016
Projects
A Bridge in a Nutshell
Cristina Tersigni • March 25, 2016
Editorial · Leisure
Let No One Be Alone
Cristina Tersigni • December 18, 2015
Editorial · Spirituality
Five Acts
Cristina Tersigni • September 22, 2015
Review · Culture
We'll Figure It Out
Cristina Tersigni • June 29, 2015
Editorial · Faith and Light
Precious Gifts
Cristina Tersigni • March 19, 2015
Editorial · Family
Places of Relationship
Cristina Tersigni • March 19, 2015
Review · Culture
What Will Become of My Autistic Son When I'm Gone? — A Review
Cristina Tersigni • March 19, 2015
Review · Culture
The Fear of Love — A Review
Cristina Tersigni • March 19, 2015
Editorial · Spirituality
One Heart at a Time
Cristina Tersigni • December 15, 2014
Editorial · Family
Keepers of Hope
Cristina Tersigni • September 29, 2014
Review · Culture
Father to Son: Conversations on the Risk of Raising Children—A Review
Cristina Tersigni • September 29, 2014
Faith and Light
Emotion Has No Voice
Cristina Tersigni • March 29, 2014
Spirituality
Six-Star Hotel
Cristina Tersigni • March 29, 2014
Review · Culture
Rico, Oscar, and the Shadow Thief
Cristina Tersigni • March 29, 2014
Review · Culture
The Fall: A Father's Memories in 424 Steps—A Review
Cristina Tersigni • March 29, 2014
Projects
Breath by Breath: Yoga for Children and Adolescents with Special Needs
Cristina Tersigni • December 14, 2013
Review · Culture
The Castle Built on Sand: A Life with Schizophrenia
Cristina Tersigni • December 14, 2013
Review · Culture
People First: A Reflection on Disability, Justice, and Ethics — Book Review
Cristina Tersigni • September 13, 2013
Review · Culture
Born This Way: Learning to See Beyond "Difference" — A Review
Cristina Tersigni • June 10, 2013
Review · Culture
The Other Family: Stories and Pathways of Foster Care at SOS Village—A Review
Cristina Tersigni • December 10, 2012
Projects
The Memory of Beauty
Cristina Tersigni • September 16, 2012
Culture
Building Your Totem: Understanding and Valuing Yourself — A Review
Cristina Tersigni • September 30, 2010
Spirituality
Dogs, Ponies—and Sea Lions
Cristina Tersigni • June 17, 2010
Culture
Walking with Christ: Reflections on Mission — A Book Review
Cristina Tersigni • March 16, 2010
Culture
Three Cups of Tea — Review
Cristina Tersigni • March 16, 2010
Culture
No Games in the Aquarium
Cristina Tersigni • December 10, 2009
Culture
What's It to Me? The Common Good in Times of Crisis — Review
Cristina Tersigni • December 10, 2009
Faith and Light
Lobsters and Fractals
Cristina Tersigni • September 10, 2009
Culture
Life as It Is for Us—A Father, a Family, and a Special Child
Cristina Tersigni • September 10, 2009
Culture
When Mothers Love Too Much: Raising Tyrants and Dependent Adults
Cristina Tersigni • September 10, 2009
Culture
Giulia, Also Known as Clown Cicciola
Cristina Tersigni • June 10, 2009
Culture
That Little Frayed Dot—A Review
Cristina Tersigni • June 10, 2009
Culture
Eros and Disability: Reflections and Testimonies
Cristina Tersigni • December 7, 2008
Culture
When Parents Get It Wrong: A Practical Guide to Breaking Bad Habits
Cristina Tersigni • December 7, 2008
Culture
Educating Disabled Children: A Book Review
Cristina Tersigni • September 3, 2008
Culture
A Diary of School: Daniel Pennac's Testament to the Struggling Student
Cristina Tersigni • June 27, 2008
Culture
White Space: A Review
Cristina Tersigni • June 27, 2008
Culture
The Daughter of Silence | Review
Cristina Tersigni • September 9, 2007
Culture
Inside the Hearts of Mothers: The Light and Shadow of Motherhood—A Review
Cristina Tersigni • June 3, 2007
Culture
Light and Joy—A Book Review
Cristina Tersigni • June 3, 2007
Culture
Ugly! A Book Review
Cristina Tersigni • March 2, 2007
Culture
My Son Devours Me—A Review
Cristina Tersigni • September 27, 2006
Culture
Psychological Support During Pregnancy
Cristina Tersigni • June 21, 2006
Culture
Neither Right nor Wrong — A Review
Cristina Tersigni • March 30, 2006
Culture
Disability Is Not a Limit—If You Love Me, Push Me to Change
Cristina Tersigni • March 30, 2006
Culture
Parenting and Disability: A Book Review
Cristina Tersigni • December 23, 2005
Faith and Light
We visited the editorial office of Ombres et Lumière in Paris
Cristina Tersigni • September 19, 2005
Testimonial · Spirituality
John Paul II Didn't Seem Like a Priest or a Pope
Cristina Tersigni • June 17, 2005
Culture
Brother Sun, Sister Down
Cristina Tersigni • June 17, 2005
Culture
Diversabilità: Stories and Dialogue from Europe's Year of Disabled Persons—A Review
Cristina Tersigni • December 14, 2004
Culture
Always Tantrums! Psychologically Sound Stories to Read with Your Children—A Review
Cristina Tersigni • September 13, 2004
Culture
My Father Is a Grain of Wheat—A Review
Cristina Tersigni • September 13, 2004
Projects
Guardianship Without Loss of Rights: A Judge Explains Italy's New Support Administration Law
Cristina Tersigni • June 11, 2004
Review · Culture
Abortion: A History of Arguments and Interests — A Review
Cristina Tersigni • June 11, 2004
Review · Culture
On the Bus with My Sister: Life as You've Never Seen It
Cristina Tersigni • June 11, 2004
Spirituality
"For You and for Everyone" — Practical Steps to Make Sure No One Feels Turned Away
Cristina Tersigni • March 9, 2004
Review · Culture
My Weekend at the Villa
Cristina Tersigni • December 22, 2003
Culture
Communities of Families—A Review
Cristina Tersigni • December 22, 2003
Review · Culture
Getting Ready for Mass — A Book Review
Cristina Tersigni • December 22, 2003
Review · Culture
Jesus as Friend: A Gospel Path for Young People with Intellectual Disabilities
Cristina Tersigni • December 22, 2003
Testimonial · Faith and Light
What Enchants Me When I Bring My Children to Fede e Luce
Cristina Tersigni • March 13, 2003
Testimonial · Family
Friends. Always.
Cristina Tersigni • December 8, 2002
Review · Culture
If You Love Me, Say No — Rules and the Power to Help Children Grow
Cristina Tersigni • June 17, 1998
Review · Culture
Giulia Isn't Beautiful
Cristina Tersigni • June 17, 1998
Review · Culture
Real Stories of Autistic Children
Cristina Tersigni • September 22, 1991
Spirituality
The Jubilee's True Joy
Cristina Tersigni • May 23, 2026