The Elderly

 

The Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life is busy building “a Church that challenges the throw-away culture with the overflowing joy of a new embrace between young and old!” (Pope Francis, General Audience, March 11, 2015).

For this reason, it fosters and supports the promotion of a pastoral care of the elderly that knows how to enhance their peculiar vocation in the Church, starting from the transmission of the faith to the youngest, from the preservation of their roots and from what can be considered the elderly’s very true specific mission: interceding in prayer.

In 2020, the Dicastery sponsored the 1st International Congress on the Pastoral Care of the Elderly entitled "The Richness of Many Years of Life," the proceedings of which were published in an e-book downloadable for free from this website

Since 2021, the Dicastery has been promoting the celebration of World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly

News

 

 

World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly
In a press release from the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life, Pope Francis' choice for this jubilee year

  The Holy Father has chosen the theme for the 5th World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly, which will be celebrated this year on Sunday, 27 July: “Blessed are those who have not lost hope.” ...

Elderly
Two online meetings, towards the 2nd International Congress on the Pastoral Care of the Elderly

  On 3 and 5 December, the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life organized two important online meetings with those responsible for the pastoral care of the elderly in the Conferences of Bishops ...

World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly
A tradition that is consolidated year after year through meeting and sharing

  Recalling the celebration of the 4th World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly after the Angelus of Sunday, 28 July, Pope Francis called everyone “to listen to the voice of the elderly who ...