Family and Life
In the light of the Praedicate Evangelium, the responsibilities entrusted to the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life include the pastoral care of the family and its mission according to God's plan, as well as the pastoral care of the elderly and the promotion and safeguard of human life.
As part of family ministry, the Dicastery promotes and coordinates the celebration of the World Meetings of Families.
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World Meeting of Families
The “spiritual realism” of marriage, in which “each spouse realizes that the other is not his or her own, but has a much more important master, the one Lord,” is the central theme of Amoris Laetitia ...
World Meeting of Families
The reference chosen by Emmanuel and Marie-Gabrielle Ménager (Tobec, France), who spoke this morning during the panel session on the importance of the complementarity of mothers and fathers, at the ...
World Meeting of Families
In the context of the Dublin World Meeting of Families, which will continue until August 26th, Claire and John Grabowski, of the Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family and Youth of the United States’ ...
Magisterium of Pope Francis on Family
- Carta del Santo Padre Francisco a los Obispos de la Región Pastoral de Buenos Aires en respuesta al Documento"Criterios básicos para la aplicación del capítulo VIII de la Amoris Laetitia" [ES] [AAS, 2016, pp.1071-1074]
- Amoris Laetitia
- Mitis Iudex Dominus Iesus
- Mitis et Misericors Iesus
- Rescript regarding the implementation and compliance of the new law for marriage annulment procedures
