Family

WMOF 2022
In support of the catechesis "Vocation and family" of WMOF 2022, the short film made by the Diocese of Rome

  As we come closer to the 10th World Meeting of Families, which will take place in Rome from June 22nd to June 26th 2022, the Diocese of Rome has developed seven catecheses on the family, ...

#IamChurch
On the occasion of Sunday of the Word of God, the latest video in the #IamChurch series

  The latest video in the #IamChurch series tells of Antonietta and Federico, two young people from Rome who are living their faith experience within a Faith and Light community. Their story is ...

Patris Corde
Pope Francis’ interview with Vatican Media on paternity and family

    Andrea Monda – Alessandro Gisotti © L'Osservatore romano, 13 January 2022. The Special Year dedicated to Saint Joseph ended 8 December 2021, but Pope Francis’ attention and love for ...

10 Videos Amoris Laetitia
Online the tenth and last episode of the dialogue of the Pope with families

  «The family does not consist only of husband and wife, children, because Jesus dwells in the marriage. The Lord lives in the family truly and concretely. He is communicated through acts of love ...

Amoris Laetitia Family Year
Gabriella Gambino, Undersecretary of the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life, to Vatican News

  © Vatican News, 27 december 2021 - "A Christmas gift to you, newly married couples, an encouragement, a sign of nearness and an occasion for meditation." This is how Pope ...

#IamChurch
The second video of the #IamChurch series is online

  "All of you have the opportunity to transform your life, to know God!" It's a call that comes from four young deaf brothers from Mexico who, in the second video of the #IamChurch ...

Family
Greeting from H.E. Card. Kevin Farrell on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the creation of the Diocese of Carabayllo, Peru

  Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Diocese of Carabayllo, Peru, erected in 1996 by St. John Paul II, Card. Kevin Farrell sent his greeting in which he invited the Peruvian diocese to take ...

#IamChurch
The first video of the #IamChurch series is online

  In his recent Message on the occasion of the International Day dedicated to the disabled persons, Pope Francis affirms that "no one can refuse the Sacraments to people with ...

Persons with disabilities
A reflection by Cardinal Farrell on Pope Francis' Message to people with disabilities

  © L'Osservatore Romano, 3 december 2021 - Persons with disabilities are lay faithful who, by virtue of Baptism, have received the same prophetic, priestly, and royal mission as every ...

10 Videos Amoris Laetitia
Online the ninth episode of the dialogue of the Pope with families

  «Today, families are severely tried by weakness. We are all fragile – and separation, divorce, and living together are now a reality that many families in the world deal with. The Church has ...

#IamChurch
From December 6, the #IamChurch campaign begins: 5 video testimonies of Christians with disabilities

  Pope Francis, in his message to persons with disabilities on the occasion of the International Day dedicated to them, wrote: Baptism makes each one of us a fully-fledged member of the ecclesial ...

#10familytips
A social campaign to help focus pastoral attention on the formation and education of the little ones in the family

  The Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life launches a new initiative of the "Amoris Laetitia Family Year”, dedicated by Pope Francis to the family. After the Rosary for Engaged couples, the ...

WYD
Exaudi News interview with the Secretary of the Dicastery in the run-up to the diocesan WYD on 21 November

  “Young people are ‘God’s now’ and the strength of the Church,” says Father Alexandre Awi Mello, Secretary of the Dicastery for the Laity, Family, and Life, when talking about  the ...

Patris Corde
In families, the miracle is often hidden in everyday life: the lesson of Jan Dobraczynski

    (L'Osservatore romano [original:Italian], 19 October 2021) by GABRIELLA GAMBINO Reading Pope Francis' Apostolic Letter Patris corde, one comes across at one point a quote from a ...

Academic Initiatives
The e-book of the days of reflection held at the Gregorian in April has been published

  The two days of the "Forum on discernment in the Family", offered by the group of professors of the Diploma in Family Ministry at the Pontifical Gregorian University, responded to the ...