Speeches

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 ...

Family
A theme among topical journalistic issues at the 10th Religious Information Course

  «For a long time - we as the Church - naively thought we were dealing with families who naturally had innate values, such as faithfulness, stability, and openness to life. We have ...

Life
WOOMB International Congress

  Last 28 and 29 April, Italian and international experts, professors and speakers discussed the development of the scientific and educational program from fertility knowledge to personalized ...

Plenary Assembly
After the greeting by Card. Farrell, the Holy Father's address to the participants in the 2nd Plenary Assembly of the Dicastery

  "You are a 'popular' Dicastery, I would say, and this is beautiful! Remember: never lose this characteristic of closeness to the women and men of our time. Closeness, I emphasize ...

Plenary Assembly
Cardinal Kevin Farrell's Address to the Holy Father

  We publish the Address to the Holy Father Francis by the Prefect of the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life, Cardinal Kevin Farrell, on the occasion of the Holy Father' Audience to the ...

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
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 ...

Events
Prefect Farrell's keynote address at the opening of the Conference for Presidents and Representatives of Episcopal Commissions for the Laity

  Starting from today until Saturday, Feb. 18, the International Conference "Pastors and Lay Faithful Called to Go Forward Together," organized by the Dicastery for Laity, Family and ...

Events
Press Conference to present the Conference "Pastors and Lay Faithful Called to Walk Together"

  At 11:30 a.m. this morning, in live streaming from the Holy See Press Office, St. Pius X Hall, Via dell'Ospedale 1, a Press Conference was held to present the International Conference for 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 ...