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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 ...
JP II Institute
The new issue of Anthropotes contains insights and analysis by experts and lecturers as well as a testimony by Cardinal Caffarra
“What faith does the Church live? The Prospects of Lumen Fidei” is the theme of the new issue of Anthropotes, the official semi-annual review of the John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for ...
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 ...
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 ...
Laity
The 4th national meeting promoted by Portugal’s National Committee of Lay Apostolate Associations will be held on November 17th and 18th
“This is the time to hope with all your hope, to work for justice and peace, and to love people, one by one.” This is the theme of the 4th National Meeting of Laity, which will take place on 17 and 18 ...