News
12/06/2017
#EarlyMomentsMatter
“Super Dads” is an initiative that has been created to celebrate fathers and stress the importance of love, play, protection and good nutrition for the child’s healthy mental development. UNICEF ...
08/06/2017
Lay associations
On the third anniversary of the meeting with Peres and Abu Mazen in the Vatican
The International Forum Catholic Action proposes the initiative "A Minute for Peace," to be held on Thursday, 8 June, at 1:00 p.m. on the occasion of the third anniversary of the prayer ...
07/06/2017
Ecclesial movements
In an interview with the “Amici del Pellegrinaggio” Card. Farrell explains the significance of the March of Loretto
The March from Macerata to Loreto is “a collective and stimulating gesture that can be a visual representation of this underlying challenge” launched by Pope Francis to “to leave the enclosure, to go ...
07/06/2017
Panama
Ad Limina Visit of the Bishops of Panama
The Ad Limina Visit of Panama’s Bishops at the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life was characterized by an atmosphere of great familiarity. The meeting comes at the time when the Dicastery and ...
05/06/2017
Church movements
The Holy Father presided the ecumenical prayer vigil on the 50th anniversary of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal. Cardinal Farrell pronounced the homily at the Mass of reconciliation
Pope Francis thanked the participants at the Circus Maximus for their testimony during the meeting on the occasion of the Golden Jubilee of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, celebrated on the ...
05/06/2017
Ecclesial movements
Fr. Daniel Ange, founder of the School of Evangelization “Jeunesse-Lumière” and some fifty young people from different countries visited the Dicastery on Monday morning, June 5th. The young people, ...
02/06/2017
WMOF
In Dublin, the session for the national delegates of family ministry, in view of the upcoming World Meeting of Families (August 21-26, 2018), is in full swing with the participation of over 110 ...
31/05/2017
Appointment
The Holy Father has appointed Rev. Father Alexandre Awi Mello Secretary of the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life, I. Sch., National Director of the Schönstatt Movement in Brazil. Rev. Father ...
31/05/2017
Albania
Ad Limina Visit of the Bishops of the Episcopal Conference of Albania
“I prayed before that wall because Jesus was there.”—These are the words of an elderly Albanian man, quoted by Don Simon Kulli, Diocesan Administrator of Sapë, during the Ad Limina Visit of the ...
30/05/2017
Ecclesial movements
The Charismatic Renewal turns fifty. Celebrations in Rome with Pope Francis
Pope Francis personally invited the worldwide Catholic Charismatic Renewal to Rome for the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the birth of this current of grace in the Catholic Church. “I am ...
29/05/2017
WMOF
Preparations are actively being made for the World Meeting of Families that will take place in 2018, in Dublin. On 1 and 2 June, the delegates will arrive in the Irish capital and be welcomed by Msgr. ...
25/05/2017
European Families Celebrating
FAFCE, the European Federation of Catholic Family Associations, will celebrate its anniversary in Rome on June 1st, the International Day of Parents, by meeting Pope Francis. This was announced in a ...
25/05/2017
The frontier of the human life
“Deepening the knowledge of the truth about marriage and the family, in the light of faith and with the help of the different human sciences, and preparing priests, religious, and laypeople to render ...
25/05/2017
Guatemala
Ad Limina Visit of the Bishops of Guatemala
On Wednesday, 24 May, we had the joy of receiving thirteen Bishops from Guatemala for their Ad Limina Visit. In an atmosphere of fraternity, the Bishops told us of their joys and their hopes regarding ...
19/05/2017
Football
On Tuesday, 16 May, at 10:30 am, Pope Francis received the Directors of the National League of Professionals Series A and the Managers and Footballers of the Juventus and Lazio Teams in the Clementine ...