Family associations
REDIUF: The creation of a network for academic collaboration between the University Family Institutes
As at every World Meeting of Families, the University Institutes for Marriage and Family again met for a day of study in the context of the Pastoral Theological Congress in Dublin. This year, nearly ...
Dublin: Matthew Lickona
“The big hoax of the Internet is to trick people into confusing an online presence with life”
“Before the rise of social media, I had never heard the order ‘Kill yourself!’ Today, this is a standard online response, one of the 100 responses out of 78,000 memes used on parents. Most people do ...
World Meeting of Families
Msgr. Leahy (Limerick), “An important role in the mission of evangelization.” “No to discouragement”
For Msgr. Brendan Leahy, Bishop of Limerick, who spoke at the Dublin World Meeting of Families, “the theme of the transmission of faith is linked to the much broader theme of the Church itself as a ...
World Meeting of Families
“Statistics in our countries show that many marriages end in divorce, sometimes shortly after being celebrated. Another trend that we can observe is that couples choose not to get married but build a ...
World Meeting of Families
“When they are given the opportunity to speak and are included in the conversation, people with special needs have the ability to contribute in meaningful and inspiring ways.” This was said by Tim ...
Dublin: Linda Ghisoni
In the intervention of the Undersecretary Linda Ghisoni on Amoris Laetitia’s chapter four. A round table on the heart of the Exhortation: “And the greatest is love: Pope Francis on 1 Cor 13”
St. Paul’s unsurpassable hymn to love in his First Letter to the Corinthians, is considered in detail, in chapter four of Amoris Laetitia, “illustrating the significance of attitudes inspired by love ...
World Meeting of Families
The interest in one’s own roots is growing more and more. This was stated by Michael Egan of the Irish Family History Foundation (IFHF), who spoke on the second day of the Pastoral Congress at the ...
World Meeting of Families
On the first day of the Pastoral Congress organized in Dublin at the World Meeting of Families (21-26 August), Marian and Vincent Bradley (Northern Ireland), gave their testimony as parents of a child ...
World Meeting of Families
Zamagni Spouses (University of Bologna), “Bonuses and subsidies do not effectively support families”
“All the improvised public measures often introduced to help families, such as a bonus for newborn children or different subsidies to support education, do not reach the goal of effectively supporting ...
Mistero grande
Cardinal Farrell’s at the 8th National Conference of the Project “Grande Mistero”
Hundreds of families have, for years, gravitated around—and are the protagonists of—a great project built on these pillars: the family is an active agent of pastoral care, an agent building up the ...