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Ad limina
The Ad limina visits of the bishops who came to the Dicastery in June

  In June, the Dicastery received bishops from Mexico and Southern Africa for their ad limina visits. Southern Africa: the priority is the formation of the laity The latter bishops' conference ...

Associations and Movements
Decree presented to the President and Founders

  During a ceremony that took place in the Aula Magna of the Dicastery on Monday, June 26, the Decree by which the Via Pacis Association obtained confirmation of recognition as an international ...

Associations and Movements
The annual meeting with the moderators

  One hundred and fifty participants and eighty-five ecclesial associations were represented at the Annual Meeting with moderators of the international associations of the faithful, ecclesial ...

"Amoris Laetitia Family" Year
The commitment of the dioceses to renewing family ministry by starting afresh from Amoris Laetitia

  One year from the celebration of the X World Meeting of Families, which concluded the "Amoris Laetitia Family" Year, at the Church level there is still an echo of the many ...

Youth
Only 40 days to go until the Lisbon event

  The youth, before all: all together those busy preparing for the trip and those who will follow the world event from a distance, then the WYD "workers"; still, all the staff and ...

Pubblications
A LEV publication with the proceedings of the last annual meeting of associations of the faithful and Church movements

  The Libreria Editrice Vaticana published the proceedings of the Annual Meeting sponsored by the Dicastery last year with the moderators of associations of the faithful, ecclesial movements and ...

Grandparents and the Elderly
Meeting with the heads of pastoral care for the Elderly of the European Bishops' Conferences

  Publishing both the Holy Father's message for the World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly and the pastoral guidelines prepared by the Dicastery represented an opportunity for an online ...

Associations and movements
Theme of the Meeting: Apostolicity, the heart of movements' identity

    This year marks the 25th anniversary of the first World Congress of Ecclesial Movements and New Communities, organized by the Pontifical Council for the Laity, which concluded with a ...

Grandparents and the Elderly
An interview with Under-secretary Gambino commenting on the Holy Father's Message for the upcoming World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly

    Yesterday Pope Francis' Message for the Third World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly, scheduled for July 23 under the theme "His mercy is from age to age" (Lk 1:50), was ...

Grandparents and the Elderly
The meeting is for July 23, just days before the start of World Youth Day in Lisbon

«His mercy is from age to age» (Lk. 1:50) is the theme chosen by the Holy Father for the III World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly and for the Message, that bears the date of the Feast of the ...