Family

World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly
The Dicastery’s Secretary comments on the theme chosen by Pope Francis

  © Vatican News - “His mercy is from age to age” is the theme of the third edition of the worldwide event, desired by Pope Francis, which will be celebrated on July 23 with a Mass by the ...

Family and life
In an interview with Vatican News, the Under-Secretary, Gabriella Gambino, talks about the SynAct Family initiative and Catechumenal Pathways

  (www.vaticannews.va) In an online meeting held a few days ago, the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life presented the SynAct Family (Synod in Action) social platform promoted by the Dicastery ...

Family and Life
The first online meeting to familiarize with the two tools made available by the Dicastery

  During the International Forum on Amoris Laetitia (June 9-12, 2022) held during the Amoris Laetitia Family Year, bishops' conferences and international movements and associations involved in ...

Family
Speech by the Under-Secretary Gabriella Gambino during the study day on the theme “The Family as a Primary Evangelizing Subject”

Last March 23, the 5th Interdisciplinary Study Day JURIDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE FAMILY organized by the Faculty of Canon Law and the Center for Legal Studies on the Family was held in Rome at the ...

Women
Prof. Gabriella Gambino's presentation at the March 8 celebration "Women in the Church: Builders of Humanity" at the Pontifical Urbaniana University

  «It is precisely within the framework of marital relationships that in the Church’s recent history some women have distinguished themselves, becoming the driving force behind a contagious ...

Women
Undersecretary Gambino will speak on the theme “Holiness and the family”

The Undersecretary of the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life, Prof. Gabriella Gambino, will participate with a talk on the theme "Holiness and the Family" during the celebration day ...

Family and Life
Speech by the Under-Secretary Gabriella Gambino during the Longo Jubilee Year (2022-2023)

On February 4, 2023, the Family and Life sector of the Campania Bishops' Conference organized a meeting at the Shrine of Pompeii to launch a regional synodal in-depth study aimed at implementing the ...

Education and family
In the latest issue of the journal Educatio Catholica, an in-depth study on: “Education and Family”

  To close off the "Amoris Laetitia Family" Year, the journal Educatio Catholica has dedicated the monographic section of issue No. 4/2022 to the relationship between "Education ...

Marriage and family
"Catechumenal Pathways for Married Life" presented to the Bolivian Bishops' Conference

  The Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life was invited by the Bolivian Bishops' Conference to speak at the meeting to program the National Plan for Family Pastoral Care for the three-year period ...

Letter to Married Couples
One year ago, in publishing the Letter to Married Couples, Pope Francis delivered a precious message for families to cherish in their hearts

On the Feast Day of the Holy Family of Nazareth - and on the occasion of the "Amoris Laetitia Family" Year - Pope Francis wrote a Letter to Married Couples: a Christmas gift, an ...

Persons with disabilities
“Rise up and walk!” is how the second video in the series on people with disabilities and the Synod is entitled

  During his audience on December 12, Pope Francis said: "because we usually associate with disability the idea of need, assistance and at times – thank God, less and less – a certain ...

Persons with Disabilities

Dear brothers and sisters! All of us, as the Apostle Paul would say, hold the treasure of life in earthen vessels (cf. 2 Cor 4:7). The International Day of Persons with Disabilities invites ...

Family
An articulate reflection 40 years after the Apostolic Constitution Divinus Perfectionis Magister

From November 9 to 11, 2022, at the Pontifical Lateran University, the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints and the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences promoted a conference entitled “Models of ...

Amoris Laetitia Family Year
The “Catechumenal Pathways for Married Life” available in 5 languages: Italian, English, Spanish, Portuguese and French

  The aim is to set up discernment paths of catechumenal inspiration, which can truly accompany young people to rediscover their faith and experience it when the vocation to family life opens up ...

Amoris Laetitia Family Year
In order to rethink pastoral care of vocations and marriage within the particular Churches

  Accompanied by great resonance and widespread diffusion, the publication of the “Catechumenal Pathways for Married Life” in the different languages is well proceeding. The English version is ...