Life
17/05/2018
Local Churches
A Pan-American Network for the right to life has been created. The announcement was made by the Latin American Episcopal Council (Celam), through the Department of Life, Family and Youth, with a ...
15/05/2018
Dicastery
The video interview to the Under Secretary Linda Ghisoni foolowing the adoption of the new statute
"The competences of a Dicastery like ours, for the Laity, Family and Life, reveal themselves more and more in their connection, in their transversal interconnection." These are the words of ...
01/05/2018
Bioethics
In Germany, the event is focused on prenatal diagnosis, while euthanasia will be at the center of the discussion in coming days in Portugal
“Euthanasia ... What is at stake?” is the theme chosen by the Portuguese Church for the upcoming Week of Life, which will be celebrated from 13 to 20 May. “We will deal with the problem of euthanasia, ...
23/04/2018
Dicastery
Vatican News interviews the Undersecretary for the Section of Life, Gabriella Gambino, on the commitment of the laity and of women serving the Holy See
“Putting the fragility in all the dimensions of human existence back into the center”—this is one of the priorities highlighted by Gabriella Gambino, Undersecretary of the Dicastery for the Laity, ...
20/04/2018
#AlfiesArmy
Bishop Francesco Cavina launches a prayer network to “melt hearts and make walls crumble”
After having accompanied Alfie's father, Thomas Evans, during his encounter with Pope Francis for an interview at Casa Santa Marta, today the Bishop of Carpi, Msgr. Francesco Cavina, has launched a ...
17/04/2018
Life
Marina Casini Bandini on the removal of the manifesto against abortion in Rome: “It did not tell a story”
“Our defense of the innocent unborn […] needs to be clear, firm and passionate, for at stake is the dignity of a human life, which is always sacred and demands love for each person, regardless of his ...
08/04/2018
UN
Commission on the status of women: Focus on education and integral development in the era of ideological colonization
Women, particularly those living in rural areas of the world, were the protagonists in New York at the recent conference of the UN Commission on the status of women. Archbishop Bernardito Auza, ...
07/04/2018
Brazil
National meeting of the coordinators “La Pastoral da Pessoa Idosa”
From 22 to 25 March, the National Meeting of the coordinators “La Pastoral da Pessoa Idosa” was held in Curitiba, Brazil, with the participation of Vittorio Scelzo from our Dicastery’s Section for ...
01/04/2018
Easter
Easter greetings of the Dicastery’s Secretary, Father Alexandre Awi Mello
“May this Easter be a time of renewal for everyone and for the Church through the family and the young!” This is the wish that the Dicastery’s Secretary, Father Alexandre Awi Mello, addresses to ...
25/03/2018
Dicastery
The first interview with the undersecretary of the section for life, Gabriella Gambino: “Giving birth in a horizon of freedom and responsibility, aware of the inviolable value of every human life”
“It seems urgent to me for us, especially in the Church, to work not only to succeed in educating women in their bioethical profile and to make them aware of the challenges they must recognize in ...