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Grandparents and the Elderly
Meeting with the heads of pastoral care for the Elderly of the European Bishops' Conferences

  Publishing both the Holy Father's message for the World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly and the pastoral guidelines prepared by the Dicastery represented an opportunity for an online ...

Associations and movements
Theme of the Meeting: Apostolicity, the heart of movements' identity

    This year marks the 25th anniversary of the first World Congress of Ecclesial Movements and New Communities, organized by the Pontifical Council for the Laity, which concluded with a ...

Grandparents and the Elderly
An interview with Under-secretary Gambino commenting on the Holy Father's Message for the upcoming World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly

    Yesterday Pope Francis' Message for the Third World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly, scheduled for July 23 under the theme "His mercy is from age to age" (Lk 1:50), was ...

Grandparents and the Elderly
The meeting is for July 23, just days before the start of World Youth Day in Lisbon

«His mercy is from age to age» (Lk. 1:50) is the theme chosen by the Holy Father for the III World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly and for the Message, that bears the date of the Feast of the ...

WYD
Holy Father will meet with young people from around the world for the XXXVII World Youth Day

  The Press Office of the Holy See has published the detailed program of the Holy Father's 42nd apostolic journey abroad, the destination of which this time is Portugal. The Pope will visit the ...

Youth Pastoral Care
In Rome, 200 Ukrainian youth celebrated the first youth meeting of the Apostolic Exarchate in Italy

  Last Friday, June 2, about 200 young representatives of Ukrainians living in Italy gathered in Rome together with Apostolic Exarch H.E. Most Rev. Dionisio Lachovicz for the first Youth Day of ...

Family Global Compact
“A shared program of actions” to establish dialogue between family ministry and family research centers in Catholic universities throughout the world

  “A shared program of actions” to establish dialogue between family ministry and family research centers in Catholic universities throughout the world “for the promotion of the family in light ...

Family Global Compact
A Global Pact to promote family, marriage, human life presented at the Holy See Press Office and in a webinar

  “A shared program of actions” to establish dialogue between family ministry and family research centers in Catholic universities throughout the world “for the promotion of the family in light ...

Dicastery
Announcement of press conference for the presentation of Pope Francis' Message

  On Tuesday 30 May 2023, at 11.30 a.m., at the Holy See Press Office, a Press Conference will take place to present the Family Global Compact and the Message of Pope Francis on the occasion of ...

Ad limina
Bishops from Ghana and Tanzania met with the Dicastery in May

  Ghana - laity, the wealth of society As for the Ghanaian prelates, they described a country in which the Catholic Church is best known for its contribution to socioeconomic development through ...