Movements and Communities

Associations and Movements
The organism’s General Assembly was held prior to the event in the Paul VI Hall where Pope Francis spoke

  It has now been more than four years since the founding of CHARIS, the body erected by the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life to serve the current of grace of the Catholic Charismatic ...

Associations and Movements
Giving themselves to God in the service of the Church and all the suffering and outcast, thereby making hope visible around the world

  From Sept. 26 to Oct. 2, around 1,000 people, who belong to the faithful association, Família da Esperança, came from various countries around the world to participate in a pilgrimage to Rome ...

Associations and Movements
The annual meeting with the moderators

  One hundred and fifty participants and eighty-five ecclesial associations were represented at the Annual Meeting with moderators of the international associations of the faithful, ecclesial ...

Associations and movements
An insight into the meaning of the statutes for an association that is recognized by the Church

  The statutes of an associations are a "guarantee for safeguarding the charism" that generated them. A statutory text reflects and guards the life and charism typical of an ...

New communities
Prefect Farrell's address during the Course for the Bishops of Brazil

  The new communities are "a resource and a great potential" because they "can offer their members paths for evangelization and catechesis, of first proclamation, of Christian ...

Charis
The Secretary, Fr. Awi Mello, meets with the coordinators of the National Services of Communion

  “Promoting, fostering and strengthening communion and unity among all the realities of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal in each country." With this encouragement Fr. Alexandre Awi Mello, ...

Associations and Movements
The words of the Prefect of the Dicastery at the presentation of the Italian edition of the book "Carmen Hernández. Biographical notes"

  Last November 29, the Italian edition of the book on the co-founder of the Neocatechumenal Way, entitled "Carmen Hernández. Biographical notes", by Professor Aquilino Cayuela, was ...

Ecclesial Associations and Movements
Speeches by Card. Kevin Farrell and Dr. Linda Ghisoni on the 30th anniversary of the International Forum of Catholic Action

  The Prefect of the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life, Card. Kevin Farrell, and the Under-secretary, Dr. Linda Ghisoni, spoke during a greeting to participants at the online meeting on the ...

Associations and movements
Theme of the Meeting: Apostolicity, the heart of movements' identity

    This year marks the 25th anniversary of the first World Congress of Ecclesial Movements and New Communities, organized by the Pontifical Council for the Laity, which concluded with a ...

The Pope's Video
The Pope's video of the month of May to pray for ecclesial movements and groups

  Ecclesial movements “are a treasure in the Church”: they speak “different languages” and “they seem different, but it is their creativity that creates these differences.” This is how Pope ...