Family

“The place in which to get married is not just a physical place, like an office, a beach, or a temple. The question of ‘where’ to get married also refers to the ‘place’ understood as a network of ...

St. Paul’s unsurpassable hymn to love in his First Letter to the Corinthians, is considered in detail, in chapter four of Amoris Laetitia, “illustrating the significance of attitudes inspired by love ...

“Call to mind the life and teaching of Jesus, seeing in them his identification with asylum seekers and vulnerable migrants” is the invitation that Fr. Michael Czerny, under-secretary, co-responsible ...

The interest in one’s own roots is growing more and more. This was stated by Michael Egan of the Irish Family History Foundation (IFHF), who spoke on the second day of the Pastoral Congress at the ...

On the first day of the Pastoral Congress organized in Dublin at the World Meeting of Families (21-26 August), Marian and Vincent Bradley (Northern Ireland), gave their testimony as parents of a child ...

“All the improvised public measures often introduced to help families, such as a bonus for newborn children or different subsidies to support education, do not reach the goal of effectively supporting ...

“If we remember and renew the awareness of what the alliance between a man and a woman means in marriage, as well as the gifts, the fruits, the benefits that it entails for the children and for the ...

“We hope that thanks to the Meeting, families will be able to acquire a more intense awareness of their vocation, which is to bear witness of joy before the world in spite of all the difficulties that ...

David Foster’s “The Prayer” is the soundtrack of the seventh multimedia clip produced by the Dicastery together with the Franciscans of Mary in preparation for the Dublin World Meeting of ...

“Life today can endanger the family, so concrete measures are needed to help it to grow.” This is the heart of Pope Francis’ message in the video with the prayer intention for the month of August. The ...

If “the family is a factory of hope, the most beautiful thing God has done,” as Pope Francis said in Philadelphia, is making it the sign of the beauty and joy of love (Amoris Laetitia) that “the ...

This is the title of the reflection of the Undersecretary of the Dicastery, Gabriella Gambino, on one of the hot topics to be addressed at the upcoming World Meeting in Dublin: educating children in ...

“His mother kept all these things in her heart” (Lk 2:51) is this Gospel phrase focused on in the sixth artistic clip for the preparation of the World Meeting of the Families of Dublin. The soundtrack ...

Hundreds of families have, for years, gravitated around—and are the protagonists of—a great project built on these pillars: the family is an active agent of pastoral care, an agent building up the ...

“The human family as an image of God, man and woman, is only one. It is only one.” Pope Francis said this, a few days ago, speaking off-the-cuff to a delegation from the Forum of Family Associations ...