Pope Francis

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A meeting with the Holy Father closes the work of the Conference "Pastors and laity called to walk together"

      This morning, the Holy Father Francis received in Audience, in the New Synod Hall at the Vatican, the participants in the International Conference for the Presidents and Referents ...

Persons with Disabilities
With the story of the meeting with the Pope, the #TheChurchIsOurHome series on disability and the Synod concludes

  The video being released today concludes the #TheChurchIsOurHome series and recounts the delivery of the summary of the Special Synodal Listening Session, dedicated to persons with ...

WYD
A thank you and encouragement from the Holy Father to the families who will welcome pilgrims to the upcoming WYD

  With six months to go before the start of World Youth Day in Lisbon, spiritual and logistical preparation involves not only the growing number of young people around the world (more than ...

WYD
The Holy Father invites young people to continue to register for the next WYD in Lisbon

  Any young person who goes to World Youth Day “has the thirst to participate, to share.. They are thirsty for horizons”. In a Videomessage published today, Pope Francis invites young people who ...

WYD
With a "click" on a tablet, the Holy Father is the first participant registered for the next World Youth Day, which will take place in Lisbon in August next year

  At the end of today's Angelus, flanked by youngs from Portugal who joined him at the window of the Apostolic Palace, Pope Francis made his online registration for WYD 2023. Dear young people, I ...

Persons with disabilities
The text of the contribution of people with disabilities to the synod on synodality now online

  At the end of the special synodal listening session of persons with disabilities that the Dicastery organized starting in May 2022, we hereby publish the full version of the summary text that ...

#sport4all
Pope Francis closes the two-days Summit and participants sign the Declaration on Sport

  With the Audience that the Holy Father gave to the participants, the International Summit 'Sport for All', organised by the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life together with the Dicastery ...

Disability
The results of the synodal listening session were delivered to the Pope

  Today, at the end of the General Audience, a number of people with disabilities met with the Holy Father and presented him with the most significant results of the special synodal listening ...

Disability
The session of a synodal listening to people with disabilities is drawing to a close

  The session of synodal listening that the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life, in collaboration with the General Secretariat of the Synod wanted to dedicate in a special way to people with ...

WYD
Message for the WYD 2022-2023 that will take place in November and in August

  “Mary arose and went with haste” (Lk 1:39): this is the theme of the Holy Father's Message to young people on the occasion of the XXXVII World Youth Day, which will be celebrated in the ...