News from the Dicastery
04/12/2018
Ad Limina Visit
The greater part of the pastoral care efforts put into place by the bishops of the Episcopal Conference of the Indian Ocean Islands, that group together the Seychelles, La Réunion, Mauritius, ...
29/11/2018
Local Churches
What is the mission of older people in the Church? Starting from this question – which took form in the reality of about 40 countries in which it is present – Life Ascending International ...
26/11/2018
GMG
Press conference on 13th December at the Dicastery: a theme park to be set up in Panama
On 13 December at 10.30 a.m., our Dicastery will be hosting the official presentation of the new JC GO languages, the APP, developed by the Fundaciòn Ramòn Pané modelled after Pokémon Go, a ...
24/11/2018
Ad limina
Bishops from Romania and Moldavia visit the Dicastery
A small community that has virtually had to start afresh but today it is growing and is very active in pastoral care, the social field and promoting Cristian values in a society divided between ...
21/11/2018
Dicastery Activities
Values, Processes and Mission for Strategic Planning in a Synodal Context
“We are really trying to become a Synodal Church as Pope Francis has requested. We are going through the experience of looking together at the service we are providing the Church by means of our ...
19/11/2018
Ad limina
The Croatian Bishops Visit to the Dicastery
Since the end of the war with Yugoslavia in 1995, the Croatian Church has gradually succeeded in getting back on its feet and today counts 4 Archdioceses, including one directly responsible to the ...
11/11/2018
From Humanae Vitae to Amoris Laetitia
Prefect Farrell’s message to the congress organized by Africa Family Life Foundation
“Our perspective must be that of Christ and his loving concern for each of us, our language that of the Holy spirit , driving us towards others not with words but with simplicity and reference to ...
07/11/2018
CHARIS
The report of Monsignor Delgado, the Prefect’s delegate at the General Conference on Catholic Fraternity
A few days ago, Monsignor Miguel Delgado Galindo, the delegate of the Dicastery Prefect, attended the General Conference on Catholic Fraternity (Southern European area), that took place in ...
02/11/2018
Dicastery
A section exclusively for contributions from associations and movements where you can read and reread experiences, reflections and reports presented on the occasion of the get-togethers promoted by ...
31/10/2018
Dicastery
A new, single, international service for Catholic Charismatic Renewal
1. The Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life, wishes to announce that on December 8th 2018 the Holy See will erect a body providing a new, single, international service ...
26/10/2018
Communication
The new edition of “Good News”, the Dicastery “TV News” is online
The new members and counselors of the Dicastery; the next World Meeting of Families to take place in Rome in 2021; the Bishops’ ad limina visits; details of the international meeting organised ...
25/10/2018
Sport
Presented in Buenos Aires and at the Catholic University of Leuven, a document on the Christian perspective on sport and the human person published by our Dicastery
“Giving the best of yourself” is a document addressed in particular to persons and organizations striving to defend the values present in the sports experience. It aims to be a document that ...
22/10/2018
Argentina
The traditional family will always be needed in the globalized future
A few days ago, Father José Guillermo Gutiérrez from our Dicastery attended a conference called "Truth and Values in the Family and in the Community", organized by the Catholic ...
21/10/2018
#Synod2018
The statements of our Secretary, Alexandre Awi Mello and Father João Chagas on the Synod in progress
Kevin Farrell, Prefect, Alexandre Awi Mello, Secretary and Father Joao Chagas from the Youth Office of the Dicastery are all attending the Synod of Young People on the matter of “Young People, ...
20/10/2018
Women
Dakar The General Assembly of the Union of Catholic Women’s Organisations: Undersecretary Ghisoni attends
The General Assembly of the Catholic Women’s Organisations is being held in Dakar, Senegal until 22nd October on the topic: “Women, carriers of living water to a world which thirsts for ...