Family
WMOF
The guests of the fifth podcast of “Let’s Talk Family” are part of the team of organizers of the pilgrimage from the Archdiocese of Birmingham to Ireland’s capital
Natalie Orefice and Lianne Pap are the protagonists of the new podcast in the series “Let’s Talk Family,” the “weekly” meeting on the way to the World Families Meeting in Dublin. In this fifth ...
Associations and Movements
A meeting at the Dicastery with the International Federation for Family Development to define goals and collaboration
A few days ago, Msgr. Carlos Simón Vázquez, the delegate for our Dicastery’s Family and Life section, met two representatives of the International Federation for Family Development (IFFD). With ...
Uruguay
The Ad Limina Visit of the Bishops of a Latin American country that is facing a serious process of accelerated secularization
The challenges that the Uruguayan Church is called to face are not so different from those of most Western countries, but their influence on the society and its culture is so strong that Uruguay has ...
Local Churches
From the dioceses of Milan and Turin a series of proposals for couples, parents and children
Spiritual Exercises, resources, documents, activities, and formation are proposed especially to families in many dioceses. For example, the service for the family of the church of Milan ...
Local Churches
The newsletter prepared by the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences is online
The latest issue of the newsletter published by the Office of Laity and Family of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC) is online. The PDF file can be downloaded free of charge. This ...
WMOF
The training of some of the 1,300 volunteers has begun and the Hyland family from Australia is coming
In Dublin, the organizational machine preparing the big World Meeting of Families is moving ahead. There are already over one thousand registrations, precisely 1046, with 606 from Ireland and 440 from ...
Symposium of the Italian Bishops’ Conference
Pope Francis's Video Message: “Spouses and Parents are accompanied the commitment to apply the Gospel to the concreteness of life”
“Love between man and woman is obviously one the most generative human experiences. It is the leaven of the culture of encounter and gives the present world an injection of sociality. Indeed, the good ...
WMOF
The protagonist of this audio file, downloadable for free, is the composer Ephrem Feeley
This week too, we are heading towards the Dublin World Families Meeting to the sound of a podcast. On this fourth appointment with the series “Let’s Talk Family,” Brenda Drumm, Communications Manager ...
Books
Cardinal Comastri’s new book is prefaced by Pope Francis and contains many testimonies that celebrate the beauty of the family
“Is it possible to give life back to the family? Yes, it is possible! It is possible by starting with the fascinating beauty of the family built according to God’s plan and bearing in mind the wounds ...
WMOF
The guest of this new audio file, which can be downloaded for free, is the pastoral planning expert Petra Conroy
As announced; the third podcast of the series "Let's Talk Family" on the way to the meeting in Dubin, is available online. This week's guest, introduced as the others by Brenda Drumm, the ...
Paraguay
Formation for the new generations and the family is at the center of the pastoral care in the churches of this Latin American country
Young people are the key to fighting the social woes that are humiliating Paraguay. The Bishops of the Latin American country who, counting on them, have launched a three-year course of formation, are ...
Nominations
Linda Ghisoni for the Section of the Laity, and Gabriella Gambino for the Section of Life
Today, Pope Francis named as new Undersecretaries to the Dicastery two women, Linda Ghisoni to Section for the Laity, and Gabriella Gambino to the Section for Life. Linda Ghisoni, born in the province ...
Associations and Movements
The new bulletin of the International Confederation of Christian Family Movements is online. This issue covers the first half of 2017. This 48-page newsletter includes the Charter of the Federation’s ...
UNPF
In Mexico City a Convention on “Family, Education and Peace” brings together over 2,000 representatives of Pro-Family Organizations
The National Union of Fathers (http://unpf.mx/) is 100 years old and, to celebrate this anniversary, the association has organized a Congress on “Family, Education, and Peace” that will be held at the ...
Pope Francis
The Holy Father’s Chirograph: “Do not be afraid, expand the horizons, and go out to listen to the reality of the people”
Today, Pope Francis visited the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life. Just a few days after the meeting with the Pontifical Foundation “Scholas Occurrentes,” Francis returned to Palazzo San ...