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Pope Francis
The New “John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute” for Matrimonial and Family Sciences Instituted in a Motu Propio
“This synodal season has led the Church to renewed awareness of the Gospel of the Family and of new pastoral challenges that the Christian community is called on to answer. The centrality of the ...
Bolivia
Ad Limina Visit of Bolivia’s Bishops
“We must highlight and value what makes our youth good. Bolivian young people are good and courageous. They engage in volunteer work and evangelization!” This is how the Bolivian Bishops, on their Ad ...
Synod on Youth
The Conclusions of the International Seminar Organized by the Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops
Identity, planning, otherness, technology, transcendence: These are the keywords of the reflections at the International Seminar on the Condition of Youth held in recent days in the Auditorium of the ...
Academy for Life
On 5 and 6 October a workshop at the Pontifical Academy for Life
"Outline the impact of technology on human life from its beginning to its end, presenting the anthropological aspects of parenthood and cultural aspects of the civilization of efficiency," ...
Movements - Communities
The Prefect's Homily at the Family Pilgrimage for the Family of Renewal in the Spirit
"Forgive each other heartily in our families so that we may always start again with a free heart, without holding on to the offenses received"—with this hope, Cardinal Kevin J. Farrell, ...
Movements - Communities
The Message of the Secretary, Father Awi Mello, to the Schoenstatt Ibero-American Family Work Congress
“With Joy, Families reaching out” was the theme of the Schoenstatt Ibero-American Family Work Congress held in Ecuador. Hundreds of married couples from fourteen countries, members of the three ...
Families in Brazil
The Secretary, Father Awi Mello, writes to the participants of Brazil’s XV Diocesan Congress on Family Pastoral Ministry
“I heartily wish that you continue, with conviction and without becoming discouraged, to propose the beauty of God’s plan for the family and boldly face its great challenges.” Father Alexandre Awi ...
Nicaragua
Ad Limina Visit of Nicaragua’s Bishops
On the morning of Monday, September 11th, during the visit “to the See” of the Apostles, Nicaragua’s Bishops were received at the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life. The Bishops of the country’s ...
Synod 2018
The International Seminar on the Condition of Youth, organized by the Secretariat of the Synod, opened this afternoon in Rome, in view of the XV Ordinary General Assembly of Bishops on Young People, ...
The John Paul II Institute
The John Paul II Institute’s offer of formation for the new academic year
Ten proposals, including licentiates, doctorates, and masters, to “to deepen the knowledge of the truth about marriage and the family, in the light of faith and with the help of the different human ...