Family

The Magazine

The Higher Institute of Family Sciences of the Pontifical University of Salamanca has published a study on Amoris Laetitia in the January 2017 issue of its semi-annual magazine “Familia.” Below are a ...

South Africa

 “Marfam” (Marriage and Family Life Renewal Ministry), which has been working for years in direct contact with the Bishops’ Conference of South Africa to actively promote and support the family ...

The Church, God’s People

“God’s people, the Church” is the theme of the resource in the series “Ab-Bebet. The adventure of the Bible in the family,” proposed by the Archdiocese of Toledo for the month of April. This is the ...

Grandparents

Grandparents are a great human, social, religious, and spiritual treasure; they are the family's memory and make it possible for the grandchildren to develop roots that give meaning to life, save them ...

Towards Dublin

Today the letter of invitation to the IX World Meeting of Families, scheduled to be held in Dublin from 21 to 26 August 2018, was presented in the Press Room of the Holy See. In the letter addressed ...

The Pope in Milan
Pope Francis’ most beautiful words in Milan about the family and children

The Pope thanked the inhabitants of Milan for their extraordinary welcome: “Really, I truly felt at home! And this with everyone, believers and non-believers alike.” He mentioned the family several ...

Family and Media

Ten video lessons to analyze the relationship between the family and the mass media in the light of the most popular contents: movies, TV-series, video games, social networks, news, and stories. The ...

Mexico
The Project to support women promoted by the Family Movement celebrates its tenth anniversary

More than 100 thousand women and as many families have been helped over the past decade. These are the "numbers" of the project "Support for Responsible Mothers" that was launched ...

Audience

  In his final greetings at the Wednesday General Audience on March 15th, in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis addressed words of encouragement the Focolare Movement “New Families,” which in the ...

John Paul II Institute
A study seminar

“Wine and Oil on the Wounds” is the title of the study seminar on the experience of abortion that the Pontifical John Paul II Institute has scheduled for 15 March, in its Auditorium, in Rome. “How ...

Bologna
In Bologna, on 7 and 8 March, a conference on the Synod and Marriage in a Theological Perspective

“The Gospel of the Family” is the theme of the 11th Annual Conference, organized by the Theological Faculty of Emilia Romagna and scheduled for 7 and 8 March, in Bologna. The event, to be held in the ...

Interview

For nearly forty years now, the Church in Italy has been celebrating the National Day for Life on the first Sunday of February. This year, on 29 January 2017, the newspaper Avvenire, in the supplement ...

Lublino
At the Catholic University of Lublin, the project of translating the Dicastery’s Acts into Polish continues

The fifth volume of the series “In the care of the welfare of marriage and the family” is completed. The announcement was made in the volume’s cover letter addressed to Cardinal Kevin Joseph Farrell, ...

Papa Francesco

“Why did you become Pope?”, “What was the most difficult moment of your life?”, “How does it feel to be the representative of the Catholic Church?” These are some of the questions that the children of ...

John Paul II Institute

You have until 5 March to register for the special cycle of the Master’s Degree in Sciences of Marriage and the Family, offered by the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and ...