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Laity
Prefect Farrell’s message to the XXIII National Meeting on Family Pastoral Care organized by the Episcopal Conference of Guatemala
“Never ignore the fact that every person includes a concrete and individual reality which we must understand, just as we need to focus our pastoral efforts on the experiences of the members of ...
From Humanae Vitae to Amoris Laetitia
Prefect Farrell’s message to the congress organized by Africa Family Life Foundation
“Our perspective must be that of Christ and his loving concern for each of us, our language that of the Holy spirit , driving us towards others not with words but with simplicity and reference to ...
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A few days after the end of the Youth Synod, the Vicariate of Rome has proposed a meeting on the recent experience of ecclesial communion
Today, the Cardinal Vicar, Angelo De Donatis will recount his experience of the Synod at the Pontifical Major Roman Seminary during a meeting called “After the Synod, the Challenge in Educating the ...
Pope Francis
In “the Wisdom of Time” a new vision of the reality of older people and their role in the future of young people
The response to the culture of waste and the generation gap is dialogue between the young and older people: this is Pope Francis’ idea at the base of the project Sharing The Wisdom Of Time, ...
Laity
Our secretary, Father Awi Mello, attended the Continental Congress of Laymen and Laywomen in Brazil
The letter on the participation of the laity in public life that Pope Francis sent on 19th March to Cardinal Francesco Marc Oellet, President of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, ...
CHARIS
The report of Monsignor Delgado, the Prefect’s delegate at the General Conference on Catholic Fraternity
A few days ago, Monsignor Miguel Delgado Galindo, the delegate of the Dicastery Prefect, attended the General Conference on Catholic Fraternity (Southern European area), that took place in ...
Dicastery
A section exclusively for contributions from associations and movements where you can read and reread experiences, reflections and reports presented on the occasion of the get-togethers promoted by ...
Dicastery
A new, single, international service for Catholic Charismatic Renewal
1. The Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life, wishes to announce that on December 8th 2018 the Holy See will erect a body providing a new, single, international service ...
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The Synod Meeting focussing on young people has ended; the homily of Pope Francis, the Final Document, the Bishops’ Letter.
Three parts, 12 chapters, 167 paragraphs, 60 pages, this is the composition of the Final Document of the XV General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on the theme “ Young People, the Faith and ...
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We have chosen some ‘pearls’ on the three parts of the Instrumentum laboris from the “small groups” which show the unique connection between the family pastoral mission and that of young people. Above ...
Sport
Presented in Buenos Aires and at the Catholic University of Leuven, a document on the Christian perspective on sport and the human person published by our Dicastery
“Giving the best of yourself” is a document addressed in particular to persons and organizations striving to defend the values present in the sports experience. It aims to be a document that ...
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The statements of our Secretary, Alexandre Awi Mello and Father João Chagas on the Synod in progress
Kevin Farrell, Prefect, Alexandre Awi Mello, Secretary and Father Joao Chagas from the Youth Office of the Dicastery are all attending the Synod of Young People on the matter of “Young People, ...
World Youth Hope
Extract from the conference on young people and new technologies in Romanian high schools
We are publishing the talk Marco Busati, who cooperates with our Dicastery and is the Director of Hope, is giving in high schools in Cluj, Blaj, Oradea and Bucarest this month, in ...
Aid to the Church in need
A million children together in prayer on 18th October
A million children praying the Rosary together for unity and peace. As has been customary for the past 13 years, Aid to the Church in need has invited children from all over the world to ...
Towards the Synod
Among the objectives of the meeting that ends tomorrow, more formation and development of a critical spirit
The National Council of the Laity of Brazil (CNLB) is organizing, for its young members, a national meeting that will be held in the Sagrada Família formation center, in São Paulo, with the aim of ...