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Forum Amoris Laetitia
Video message of Pope Francis on the occasion of the Amoris Laetitia Forum organised by the Dicastery.
With a video message sent to the Dicastery, Pope Francis opened the work of the Forum "Where are we with Amoris Laetitia? Strategies for the pastoral application of the Apostolic ...
Amoris Laetitia Forum
Online meeting for delegates of family pastoral ministry
From June 9-12, 2021, the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life is organising and hosting an online Forum "Where are we with Amoris Laetitia? Strategies for the pastoral application of Pope ...
Pope Francis
The Holy Father dedicates his prayer intention for the month of June to the beauty of marriage
The Pope Video has just been published with the intention that Francis is entrusting to the entire Catholic Church through the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network. In the context of the “Special year of ...
Amoris Laetitia Videos
Available now: the third video of the Holy Father in dialogue with families
“With the same look of tenderness and mercy that Jesus had, the Church wants to accompany families so that every family might be a pillar of evangelization. I would like to say one thing to you: with ...
Rosary for engaged couples
Did you know that, in the Year of St. Joseph, a Plenary Indulgence is being offered to families and engaged couples?
In the Year of St. Joseph, a Decree issued by the Apostolic Penitentiary on December 8, 2020 on the granting of Indulgences states that the special gift of a Plenary Indulgence will be granted under ...
Family and food-justice
The intervention of Undersecretary Ghisoni at the webinar “Food for Life: the role of women in promoting integral human development”
The family, and above all women, as a factor of change for the achievement of sustainable development goals, in particular the elimination world hunger. Linda Ghisoni, Undersecretary of the Dicastery ...
Guidelines WYD
The guidelines approved by the Holy Father are an encouragement for the whole Church to give a new impetus to the youth day celebrated in the local realities
An experience of faith and vocational discernment, a personal encounter between pastors and young people (not only those involved in the life of the Church), an opportunity to discover and put ...
Natality
Pope Francis at the opening of the States General for Birth-rates
"Children are the hope that revives a people! [...] If families are not at the centre of the present, there will be no future; but if families restart, everything restarts." Said Pope ...
Amoris Laetitia Family Year
Gabriella Gambino at the webinar of the CCEE “Family: toward a pastoral care of mission and communion”
The Family and Life Commission of the CCEE (Council of Bishops' Conferences of Europe) invited representatives of the Bishops' Conferences from all over Europe to the first official online meeting of ...
Laity
The 37 year old judge killed by the mafia beatified in Agrigento
May 9, 2021, saw the beatification of Rosario Livatino, an Italian magistrate whom Pope Francis called a “martyr of justice and faith”. Blessed Rosario was born in 1952, in Canicattì, Sicily. After ...