Family
Spain
May Families be Outgoing Communities
From 16 to 21 July, the International Family Encounter (IFE) held at the Escorial in Madrid, Spain, brought together 80 Ignatian lay people, experts in family ministry, from 30 countries. The meeting ...
The Course
PRESENTATION The Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family Studies, in collaboration with the National Offices for Family Ministry and Pastoral Care of Vocations of the Italian ...
WMOF
Available in five languages and full of multimedia contents
The website for the Dublin World Meeting of Families is online. This site—available in Italian, English, French, Spanish, and Irish Gaelic—is full of useful information and thematic insights. From the ...
The new website
A hug that welcomes all the laity and all the families of the world. This is what the new logo of the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life Dicastery, that we are presenting today together with the ...
WMOF
A Meeting in Dublin on the Program, the Catechesis, the Festival of Testimonies; the full involvement of the delegates of family ministry in Ireland’s dioceses.
Msgr. Carlos Simón Vázquez, delegate of our Dicastery’s Family and Life Section, and Dr. Marco Brusati, our collaborator in the organization of major events, have been to Dublin in recent days to meet ...
Activities of the Dicastery
Some MEPs meet to discuss family policy issues
In recent days, at the headquarters of the Dicastery’s Family Section, Msgr. Carlos Simon met with a delegation of European parliamentarians led by Mr. Miroslaw Mikolasik (Slovakia). The delegation ...
From the Dicastery
Msgr. Carlos Simón Vázquez received Mother Jana Zawieja, Superior General of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth, in the Dicastery’s family and life section. Founded in 1875 ...
Haiti
Ad Limina Visit of Haiti’s Bishops
“The family is an invaluable asset for which we will never stop thanking God.” In these words, pronounced by Msgr. Yves-Marie Péan on the occasion of the Ad Limina visit of Haiti’s Bishops at the ...
#EarlyMomentsMatter
“Super Dads” is an initiative that has been created to celebrate fathers and stress the importance of love, play, protection and good nutrition for the child’s healthy mental development. UNICEF ...
WMOF
Preparations are actively being made for the World Meeting of Families that will take place in 2018, in Dublin. On 1 and 2 June, the delegates will arrive in the Irish capital and be welcomed by Msgr. ...
European Families Celebrating
FAFCE, the European Federation of Catholic Family Associations, will celebrate its anniversary in Rome on June 1st, the International Day of Parents, by meeting Pope Francis. This was announced in a ...
The frontier of the human life
“Deepening the knowledge of the truth about marriage and the family, in the light of faith and with the help of the different human sciences, and preparing priests, religious, and laypeople to render ...
Cuba
Ad Limina Visit of Cuba’s Bishops
“Until a few years ago, often only grandmothers accompanied the children at Baptism, and they frequently chose to go to a neighboring area to avoid being recognized. Nowadays, most Cubans ask that the ...
New Families
Family Highlights in Loppiano: 1,000 present and 10,000 contacts. The Gospel is for the family!
At the initiative of the New Family Movement, during these months events, training sessions and several meetings are being held throughout the world to reflect on themes concerning the family and to ...
Ontario
Visit ad Limina of the Catholic Bishops' Assembly of Ontario
“We have to take care of real families and not the ideal ones we have in our minds.” This statement was at the heart of the exchange that took place in the office of the Dicastery for the Laity, ...