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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Family and Life
“Married Couples and priests: co-responsible in light of the Catechumenal Pathways for Married Life”
Speech by the Under-Secretary Gabriella Gambino during the Longo Jubilee Year (2022-2023)
On February 4, 2023, the Family and Life sector of the Campania Bishops' Conference organized a meeting at the Shrine of Pompeii to launch a regional synodal in-depth study aimed at implementing 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 ...
Marriage and family
"Catechumenal Pathways for Married Life" presented to the Bolivian Bishops' Conference
The Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life was invited by the Bolivian Bishops' Conference to speak at the meeting to program the National Plan for Family Pastoral Care for the three-year period ...
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
