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The Pope Video
The Pope Video for June: after that on Youth, now available that on Family

  The Pope Video for June has just been released with the prayer intention that Francis is entrusting to the entire Catholic Church through the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network. This month, the ...

WMOF 2022
The Program of the event and the themes of the Pastoral Congress were presented in the Press Office of the Holy See

  "It will be a time of listening and encounter." Gabriella Gambino, Undersecretary of the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life, thus defined the 10th World Meeting of Families on ...

Grandparents and Elderly
Care for grandparents and the elderly: laying the foundations of a long-range pastoral work that will engage us for decades to come.

  (Vatican City - May 30, 2022) The Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life today released to the public a pastoral kit with instructions for the celebration of the Second World Day for ...

WMOF 2022
Towards the 10th World Meeting of Families

  The 10th World Meeting of Families is less than a month away, and the organisers - Diocese of rome and Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life - are taking stock of the situation with a press ...

Persons with disabilities
The contribution of persons with disabilities to the Synod on Synodality

  An online listening session, lasting about two hours, was held yesterday afternoon on the theme "The Church is your home. The contribution of people with disabilities to the Synod on ...

WYD
The Local Organizing Committee presented the 13 Patron Saints of WYD Lisbon 2023

  St. John Paul II, St. John Bosco, St. Vincent, St. Anthony, St. Bartholomew of the Martyrs, St. John de Brito, Blessed Joanna of Portugal, Blessed John Fernandes, Blessed Maria Clara of the ...

WMOF 2022
Issued a stamp to commemorate the Meeting that will start on 22 June

Five Vatican City State sheets and stamps were issued on May 16 to commemorate several important anniversaries including the upcoming World Meeting of Families.

WMOF 2022
In support of the catechesis "Grandparents and the Elderly" of WMOF 2022, the short film produced by the Diocese of Rome

  As we come closer to the 10th World Meeting of Families, which will take place in Rome from June 22nd to June 26th 2022, the Diocese of Rome has developed seven catecheses on the ...

Amoris Laetitia
The greeting of Card. Farrell at the conference at the Gregorian as part of the Year "Family Amoris Laetitia"

  The conference "Pastoral Practices, Life Experience and Moral Theology: Amoris Laetitia Between New Opportunities and New Paths" opened this morning, May 11, at the Pontifical ...

Elderly
Presentation of the Message for the second World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly

Today, May 10, Pope Francis' Message for the World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly 2022 was presented with the theme “In old age they will still bear fruit” (Ps 92:15). The Holy Father addresses ...