News
18/01/2018
Youth
The members of the “San Calisto Platform” created in connection with the project “The Meeting Point” are elaborating a proposal of affective education that will be presented at the Dublin World Meeting of Families
Last November, the Dicastery created the San Calisto Platform, composed of the experts of “The Meeting Point,” a course of affective and sexual education inspired by Amoris Laetitia that was presented ...
17/01/2018
Youth
From the Italian Bishops’ Conference, an interactive project to explore the ambitions, hopes, and fears of the young under 30
#Velodicoio, the new portal dedicated to listening to young people, is online. This is an interactive project conceived by the National Youth Pastoral Service of the Italian Bishops’ Conference (CEI) ...
16/01/2018
WMOF
Update on the organizational activities: the preparations for the Festival, the Icon of the Holy Family, and podcast number 7 of the series “Let's Talk Family”
The preparations for the IX World Meeting of Families in Dublin are speeding up. The members of the organizing committee met a few days ago in Ireland’s capital to prepare the Festival of Families. ...
15/01/2018
Associations and Movements
A day of study focused on the theological scenario and open legal issues in the relationship between movements, associations, new communities, and institutions
“Charism and Institution in Movements and Ecclesial Communities” is the theme of the study day, promoted by the Evangelii Gaudium Center of the Sophia University Institute and under the patronage of ...
13/01/2018
Youth
Just one year until the WYD: Preparations are now lively, with a meeting in Stuttgart
Putting the spotlights on young people is also on the Dicastery’s agenda for 2018. With the aim of reflecting together on “how to plan youth ministry in the Movement, to bring young people closer to ...
12/01/2018
Dicastery
In today’s issue of the Osservatore Romano, a long interview with the Prefect Kevin Farrell
A reflection on the year and a half passed since the establishment of the Dicastery; the presentation of the major events being prepared, including the World Meeting of Families and the World Youth ...
12/01/2018
Family
The 2017 CISF Report: The Family, an Antidote to the “Silent Hearths”
An epoch-making technological acceleration is what we are experiencing, and 68% of Italy’s households have an active internet connection, with half of the data traffic on smartphones. This is ...
11/01/2018
Documents
Many current topics are discussed in the volume “Women and Work,” edited by the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life and just published by the Libreria Editrice Vaticana. Indeed, as Cardinal ...
10/01/2018
Academy for Life
An International Congress will be held from February 28th to March 1st in Rome to promote dialogue and cooperation in protection of the dying person
The contribution of palliative care to medicine, health care, and society, the spread of palliative care, the impact of different religious beliefs and spiritual perspectives on the care of the dying, ...
09/01/2018
Local Churches
2018 is dedicated to the family with the pastoral resource “Together Forever. On the Path of Sacramental Marriage”
“Together Forever. On the Path of Sacramental Marriage” is the theme that will accompany the Church in Germany throughout 2018. A four-part pastoral resource has been published under the same title to ...
08/01/2018
WMOF
Interview with Ireland’s Primate Martin: “The Catholic family is beautiful: it is based on love and grows in a community of families”
“We want to show that the model of the Catholic family can attract; it’s beautiful. We are offering the beauty of our vision, that of a man and a woman united in love and committed to life.” These ...
06/01/2018
Pope Francis
In the words chosen by the Pope for the feast days, the themes of family and life are constantly and concretely evoked
The year just begun “opens in the name of the Mother of God.” Mary, placing herself as a mother between her son Jesus and people, carries out “a very special function.” Furthermore, “all parents” are ...
05/01/2018
Dicastery
The meeting of Father Chagas with Fr. Fornos and Fr. Ramirez of the Apostolate of Prayer at the General Curia of the Jesuits
A few days ago, Father João Chagas, head of our Dicastery’s Youth Office, met with Fr. Frédéric Fornos and Fr. Luis Ramirez, respectively director and assistant of the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network ...
28/12/2017
Associations and Movements
At the Dicastery, a meeting with the international delegation of the International Military Apostolate
A few days ago, the Secretary Fr. Alexandre Awi Mello, together with the officials in charge of ecclesial aggregations Mr. Philip Milligan and Fr. Giovanni Buontempo met representatives of the AMI ...
26/12/2017
Local Churches
A visit to Holy Shroud will be an excellent stage for young people on pilgrimage in Rome
The subalpine dioceses are promoting a pilgrimage to Rome for young people. The program, scheduled for 9 August, for young people from 16 to 30, from the 17 dioceses of Piedmont and Valle d'Aosta will ...