Dicastery
13/12/2018
Communication
The WYD in Panama, Pope Francis’s video message and his travel programme, the Dicastery activities – from strategic planning to the commitments of the Church Superiors in Italy and the world –, the ...
29/11/2018
Local Churches
What is the mission of older people in the Church? Starting from this question – which took form in the reality of about 40 countries in which it is present – Life Ascending International ...
21/11/2018
Dicastery Activities
Values, Processes and Mission for Strategic Planning in a Synodal Context
“We are really trying to become a Synodal Church as Pope Francis has requested. We are going through the experience of looking together at the service we are providing the Church by means of our ...
19/11/2018
Ad limina
The Croatian Bishops Visit to the Dicastery
Since the end of the war with Yugoslavia in 1995, the Croatian Church has gradually succeeded in getting back on its feet and today counts 4 Archdioceses, including one directly responsible to the ...
31/10/2018
Dicastery
A new, single, international service for Catholic Charismatic Renewal
1. The Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life, wishes to announce that on December 8th 2018 the Holy See will erect a body providing a new, single, international service ...
26/10/2018
Communication
The new edition of “Good News”, the Dicastery “TV News” is online
The new members and counselors of the Dicastery; the next World Meeting of Families to take place in Rome in 2021; the Bishops’ ad limina visits; details of the international meeting organised ...
21/10/2018
#Synod2018
The statements of our Secretary, Alexandre Awi Mello and Father João Chagas on the Synod in progress
Kevin Farrell, Prefect, Alexandre Awi Mello, Secretary and Father Joao Chagas from the Youth Office of the Dicastery are all attending the Synod of Young People on the matter of “Young People, ...
12/10/2018
Ad limina
On the occasion of their ad limina visit to our Dicastery, the Scottish bishops shared the experience of their particular churches, albeit a minority in their territory, yet without fear of making their voices heard
With 700,000 faithful out of a population of over 5 million, the Catholic Church in Scotland is present nationwide in public debate and on sensitive issues such as the end of life, research on ...
01/10/2018
Dicastery
Fr. Awi Mello: “We need to train laity for the urgent needs of our time, and for the needs of a Church that looks outwards towards society, the specific environment of the laity”
Three international associations led the concluding panel discussion on day three of the International Symposium: “Promotion and Formation of the Laity: best practices”, organised by the Dicastery for ...
24/09/2018
Local Churches
A few weeks ago, the 17th Day of the Clergy celebrated in the five dioceses of Galicia, Spain, brought together six bishops and over 150 priests around the theme of family ministry and, especially, ...