Speeches

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 ...

New communities
Prefect Farrell's address during the Course for the Bishops of Brazil

The new communities are "a resource and a great potential" because they "can offer their members paths for evangelization and catechesis, of first proclamation, of Christian initiation, ...

Persons with disabilities
The second meeting of the Dicastery with the Bishops' Conferences leaders for the pastoral care of people with disabilities took place. The introductory speech by Undersecretary Gabriella Gambino

  The first video of the series #TheChurchIsOur-Home, dedicated to the theme of the participation of persons with disabilities in the life of the Church, was published on the social channels of ...

Movements and Associations
The words of Card. Kevin Farrell at the 8th Assembly of IFCA- International Forum of Catholic Action

  On Saturday, Nov. 26 and Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022, the International Forum of Catholic Action, the organization that gathers and coordinates the world's Catholic Action associations, celebrated ...

Family
An articulate reflection 40 years after the Apostolic Constitution Divinus Perfectionis Magister

From November 9 to 11, 2022, at the Pontifical Lateran University, the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints and the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences promoted a conference entitled “Models of ...

WYD
Card. Farrell to the youth ministry delegates from around the world gathered in Fátima/Lisbon to prepare for WYD 2023

About 300 delegates from more than 100 countries, who belong to Episcopal Conferences, Movements, and Associations, gathered for the first time face-to-face since WYD Panama, due to the ...

Charis
The Secretary, Fr. Awi Mello, meets with the coordinators of the National Services of Communion

  “Promoting, fostering and strengthening communion and unity among all the realities of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal in each country." With this encouragement Fr. Alexandre Awi Mello, ...

#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 ...