2018

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World Meeting of Families

Card. Nichols (Westminster), “Using the right language to invite young people to take up the challenge of marriage”

“In marriage preparation, we try to balance the call to love one another with the innate call to welcome the gift of children. Planning a family together is a great privilege.” Card. Vincent Nichols, ...

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World Meeting of Families

Msgr. Tighe (PCC), “Sport, the privileged way to transmit good values”

"If sport can reach its goal of involving and including everyone, it will help to inspire a vision of solidarity that offers hope to all of humanity,” said Msgr. Paul Tighe, Secretary of the ...

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World Meeting of Families

Bairbre Cahill (Ireland), “Holiness in the family also passes through a pile of dirty dishes to be washed”

“Holiness in the family also passes through a pile of dirty dishes to be washed.” This is the holiness of daily life proposed by the Irish author and speaker on spirituality Bairbre Cahill, who took ...

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World Meeting of Families

Carolyn Y. Woo, “Faith, Family and Development: The Witness of Women in Leadership”

What does woman’s leadership look like? Carolyn Y. Woo, president of Catholic Relief Services, spoke on the second day of the Pastoral Congress at the Dublin World Meeting of Families (21-26 August). ...

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World Meeting of Families

Withers (Youth), “My dissatisfied generation is looking for a counterculture. That could be the Church”

Isaac Withers, representative of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales at the 2018 Synod, is the youngest of five siblings. At the Pastoral Congress of the Dublin World Meeting of Families ...