Laity
Local Churches
Starting today a year will be dedicated to events and reflection to stimulate and encourage lay people in the mission of the “outgoing Church”
The Year of the Laity opens today, 26 November, Solemnity of Christ the King. The Church in Brazil will be actively engaged in this initiative until 25 November 2018. The theme chosen to promote the ...
Capo Verde
The head of the Youth Office met in this African country with young people and youth pastoral workers in ‘view of next year’s event
In the context of the preparations for the General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on “Young People, the Faith and Vocational Discernment,” the Diocesan Secretariat for Youth Ministry in Santiago, ...
Women’s Office
Among the activities of the Women's Office of the Dicastery, there were two meetings this week. In Rome, the office head, Marta Rodriguez, attended a formation session of the World Union for Catholic ...
Movements and Associations
Cardinal Farrell celebrates a Mass of Thanksgiving in Rome for the Association born in France over forty years ago and for the abundant fruits that it is generating in the Church
A Mass of thanksgiving for the Emmanuel Community was celebrated yesterday in Rome, in the church of San Lorenzo in Piscibus, by Cardinal Farrell, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and ...
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
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 ...
Associations and Movements
A few days ago, the international coordinators of the MILPA Association (Palautian Lay Missionaries) came to visit our Dicastery. The delegates were received by the Dicastery’s Secretary, Father ...
Movements and Associations
A great wish of Father Josef Kentenich—founder of the highly diversified Schönstatt Movement, born one hundred years ago in Germany—was that the Movement be present in the heart of the Church, in ...
WYD 2019
Panama continues organizing the event and expects the arrival of over 20,000 volunteers
The WYD cross and the icon of Mary “Salus Populi Romani” continue their pilgrimage through the countries of Central America and, after visiting Mexico and Cuba—where meetings and celebrations were ...
Popular Piety
Card. Farrell at the University of Murcia for the 3rd International Congress of Confraternities: Rendezvous in Malaga in 2021
The Prefect of the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life, Cardinal Kevin Farrell, and the delegate for the family, Msgr. Carlos Simón Vasquez, attended the 3rd International Congress of ...
Associations and Movements
Catholic Action celebrates its 150th annniversary with a documentary to tell about “lay people who are carrying the Church to the world”
What Catholic Action have the 150 years of the Association’s history formed? This is the question that Antonia Pillosio’s documentary “Catholic Action a Continuing Story” is intended to answer. The ...
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 ...
Associations and Movements
The meeting with the federal bureau was attended by the Secretary Fr. Awi Mello and Fr. Buontempo
In recent days, the Dicastery's Secretary, Father Alexandre Awi Mello, and Father Giovanni Buontempo, in charge of relations with the ecclesial movements and new communities, met with the Federal ...
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 ...