2025
WYD Seoul 2027
Pope Leo XIV announces the dates of the next international edition of the World Youth Day
At the end of the Angelus prayer, immediately after Holy Mass on the occasion of the Youth Jubilee 2025, Pope Leo XIV announced the dates of the next World Youth Day in Seoul in 2027: ...
World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly
Pope Leo XIV at the Angelus Prayer on the Fifth World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly
‘Dear brothers and sisters! Today we celebrate the Fifth World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly, centred on the theme: “Blessed are those who have not lost hope.” At the end of ...
WYD Seoul 2027
Secretary Gleison De Paula Souza and a delegation from the Dicastery visit Seoul to accompany the progress of preparations for the next WYD
The Secretary of the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life, Dr. Gleison De Paula Souza, accompanied by Fr. Franco Galdino, coordinator of the Youth Area of the Dicastery, and officials from ...
Family
From 6 to 12 July, the second edition of the Training Course for International Family Movements
The second edition of the Training Course for International Family Movements organised by the Pontifical Theological Institute John Paul II for Marriage and Family Sciences, in ...
World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly
Dicastery's Pastoral indications for a Jubilee celebration with the elderly unable to physically make the pilgrimage
The Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life has released the official prayer and suggestions for celebrations, with particular attention to elderly people unable to participate in the jubilee ...
Laity
In June, the beatification of the young Congolese man and the announcement of canonisations and decrees of venerability
On 15 June, the solemn beatification of the young Floribert Bwuana Chui, a Congolese from Goma, took place. He was killed in 2007 after resisting pressure to allow shipments of rotten rice to ...
Human Life
A series of webinars with delegates from the Life Offices of the Episcopal Conferences has begun: one more step towards building a Pastoral Care of Human Life
Following the recent publication of the resource “Life is always a good”, edited by the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life, the first two online meetings were held in May and June with the ...
Youth
De Paula Souza spoke at the Interreligious Forum for Peace in the Balkans in Koper, organised by the Slovenian Bishops' Conference
Highly sensitive to the serious conflict in Eastern Europe and aware of the fragility of peace, even in the Balkan countries, the bishops of the Slovenian Bishops' Conference organised, once ...
Family
A study seminar and a project for an International Confederation of Catholic Family Associations
How can family networks make an effective contribution to the Church and society? This was the topic discussed by participants at the International Seminar ‘Family Networks for the Future of ...
Associations and Movements
A greeting from His Excellency Monsignor Gervasi to participants at the 35th International Seminar
“The call you have received is an invitation to place yourselves at the service of the needs of parishes, so that they are not merely legal institutions or organisations that offer spaces for ...
Associations and Movements
Unity and Mission in Union with the Pope
This morning, in the Clementine Hall, the Holy Father Leo XIV received in Audience the participants in the Annual Meeting of Moderators of Associations ...
Associations and Movements
Card. Kevin Farrell opens Annual Meeting with Moderators of Eccelesial Communities (June 4-6, 2025)
Card. Kevin Farrell, prefect of the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life, welcomed the approximately 250 participants, moderators and representatives of the 115 aggregations recognized by ...
Family
Today and tomorrow, a study seminar on the ecclesial and pastoral mission in relation to young people and families
“Dear brothers and sisters, I am pleased that following the celebration of the Jubilee for Families, Children, Grandparents, and the Elderly a group of experts has gathered at ...
Family, Children, Grandparents, Elderly
Over three days, more than 60,000 pilgrims celebrated the Jubilee with Pope Leo XIV, in a spirit of hope
Engaged couples, married couples, parents, children, grandparents, uncles, aunts, young people and the elderly: families from all over the world gathered in Rome from 30 May to 1 June to ...
Family
At Trinità dei Monti, a meeting hosted by the Emmanuel Community as part of the Jubilee for Families
As part of the three days dedicated to the Jubilee for Families, Children, Grandparents and the Elderly – with over 70,000 people from 130 countries present in Rome – among the various ...