Associations and Movements
The Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life supports the life and development of international associations of the faithful, ecclesial movements and new communities. This pastoral task shapes the Church's desire to help aggregations of the faithful fully realize their own objectives, which are always oriented toward the good of the person, the Church and society. To this end, the Dicastery organizes an annual Meeting of Moderators of Lay Associations, Ecclesial Movements and New Communities and other pastoral initiatives.
At the same time, the Dicastery recognizes or constitutes, in accordance with the provisions of Canon Law, aggregations of the faithful and ecclesial movements that have an international character by approving their Statutes; it also deals with any hierarchical appeals relating to the associative life and the apostolate of the laity.
The Dicastery has embraced this great responsibility of accompanying the associations and movements entrusted to it and does so with great care, in an attitude of listening and discernment.
News
Associations and Movements
The members of the movement “Diaconie de la Beauté” meet Pope Francis: “The Church counts on you to make the ineffable beauty of God’s love perceptible”
“I invite you to develop your talents to contribute to an ecological conversion that recognizes the eminent dignity of each person, his particular value, his creativity, and his ability to promote the ...
Associations and Movements
The words of Msgr. Bassetti, President of the Italian Bishops’ Conference, and Fr. Gentili, head of the Family Ministry Office, to the assembly of the Forum of Family Associations. President De Palo: “Family are the cue not the illness”
“If the families stop, the country’s social motor will stop, the heart of society will stop beating. And if the heart stops beating, after a while brain death will follow. To prevent this drift, we ...
Movements and Associations
The study conducted by the Dicastery official Milligan on “Approaches to Authority and Obedience in the International Ecclesial Movements and New Communities”
“Ecclesial Movements and New Communities contribute to the life of the Church as authentic schools of virtue: useful for learning authority as service, and for aspiring to obedience as something ...
Magisterium of Pope Francis on Associations and Movements
Francis, Speech to the members of the Ialian Catholic Action National Council, 30 April 2021. (IT)
Francis, Address to Participants in the General Assembly of the Focolare Movement, 6 February 2021
Francis, Address to Members of the Parish Evangelisation Cell System, 18 November 2019.
Francis, Visit to the Sky Citadel of the "New Horizons Community" of Frosinone, 24 September 2019. (IT)
Francis, Address to Participants in the International Conference of Leaders of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal International Service (CHARIS), 8 June 2019.
Francis, Address at the Meeting with Members of the Focolare Moement in Loppiano, 10 May 2018.
Francis, Meeting of the Neocatechumenal Way on the Occasion of the 50th Anniversity of the Momvement, 5 May 2018.
Francis, Meetting with the St Egidio Community on the Occassion of the 50th Anniversy of the Movement, 11 March 2018.
Francis, Address to Participants in the Congress of the International Forum of Catholic Action (IFCA), 27 April 2017.
Francis, Address to the Communion and Liberation Movement, 7 March 2015.
Francis, Address to Participants in the 37th National Convocation of the Renewal in the Holy Spirit, 1st June 2014.
Francis, Address to Representatives of the Neocatechumenal Way, 1st February 2014.
Francis, Homily of Holy Mass on the Solemnity of Pentecost, 19 May 2013.
Francis, Regina Cæli, 19 May 2013.
