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WMOF
From the Archdiocese of Dublin: A Vademecum with all you need to know to prepare for the 2018 World Meeting of Families
What exactly is a World Meeting of Families? How is the next one organized? How can we prepare for it? Will the Pope be in Dublin? How can we participate? Less than a year now separates us from the ...
USMI
The Italian Union of Major Superiors is sponsoring a course on family pastoral care for consecrated persons and facilitators
A course of formation on family pastoral ministry for consecrated persons and lay facilitators is proposed by the Italian Union of Major Superiors in collaboration with the Center for Studies Capax ...
Local Churches
Today in Lyon’s Cathedral of Saint John, a meeting for the separated, divorced and remarried
“Show them all that they are not only supported by everyone’s affection, love and attention but above all that we need them, in the journey they are on, because we build the Church together.” With ...
UN
The International Day of Rural Women will be celebrated tomorrow, to eliminate all discrimination and guarantee instruction, education, empowerment and fair compensation
“To ensure young women instruction and education, empowerment, and fair compensation for their work” the UN established the International Day of Rural Women, which will be celebrated tomorrow, October ...
On 8 December, the dome of the Holy Trinity in the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception will be inaugurated
Pope Francis has appointed the Prefect Card. Kevin Farrell to be his special envoy at the inauguration of the dome depicting the Most Holy Trinity in the Basilica of the US National Shrine of the ...
Academy for Life
At the Vatican Museums, 12 works of an artistic path reflecting the beauty of human relationships
Accompaniment of the suffering, care for the sick, and the relationship between generations are not only at the center of the XXIII General Assembly of the Academy for Life that was held a few days ...
Local Churches
The Portuguese Archdiocese of Évora bets on the family for the new pastoral year
The family is “the heart of Christian life” and must be the stake of this new pastoral year, said Évora’s Archbishop, H.E. Msgr. José Alves, a few days ago at the inauguration of the pastoral year ...
A small reflection upon the magisterium of the Holy Father Roncalli
Even though the family was not one of the principle themes of Saint John XXIII’s pontificate, there are actually many texts where the new saint refers to the family. Above all we see the family ...
Youth
Canada: Today the Prefect Card. Farrell is the guest of Salt & Light TV to record the talk show to be broadcast on 22 October
Cardinal Kevin Farrell is in Canada today for a talk show at the TV studios of the Canadian Catholic Salt & Light Media. The show, with many young people around the theme of the Synod “Young ...
Local Churches
Umbria, the Paschal Resource for the Family with a handwritten note from Pope Francis
“To the dear families of Umbria. The booklet summarizing the contents of the Encyclical Laudato si’, which will be given to you by your priests during the Paschal Blessing, is particularly significant ...