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Laity
Our secretary, Father Awi Mello, attended the Continental Congress of Laymen and Laywomen in Brazil
The letter on the participation of the laity in public life that Pope Francis sent on 19th March to Cardinal Francesco Marc Oellet, President of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, ...
CHARIS
The report of Monsignor Delgado, the Prefect’s delegate at the General Conference on Catholic Fraternity
A few days ago, Monsignor Miguel Delgado Galindo, the delegate of the Dicastery Prefect, attended the General Conference on Catholic Fraternity (Southern European area), that took place in ...
JP2 Institute
The start of the new biennium for the Master’s Degree promoted jointly with the Bioethics Institute of the Catholic University
The Pontifical Institute for the Family - with its 35 years of anthropological studies on the truth about man and about woman, on love, on marriage and the family, on the light in Cristian ...
Dicastery
A section exclusively for contributions from associations and movements where you can read and reread experiences, reflections and reports presented on the occasion of the get-togethers promoted by ...
Pope Francis
The Pope’s words during the catechesis on the sixth commandment: “You shall not commit adultery”
Every Christian vocation, like the priesthood and consecrated virginity, is spousal. Pope Francis recalled this yesterday on completing his catechesis on the sixth commandment: You shall not commit ...
Dicastery
A new, single, international service for Catholic Charismatic Renewal
1. The Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life, wishes to announce that on December 8th 2018 the Holy See will erect a body providing a new, single, international service ...
#Synod2018
The Synod Meeting focussing on young people has ended; the homily of Pope Francis, the Final Document, the Bishops’ Letter.
Three parts, 12 chapters, 167 paragraphs, 60 pages, this is the composition of the Final Document of the XV General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on the theme “ Young People, the Faith and ...
REDIUF
On 19th October, Don José Guillermo Gutiérrez from our Dicastery attended a workshop at the Institute for Families at the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina. His talk – attended by a large ...
#Synod2018
We have chosen some ‘pearls’ on the three parts of the Instrumentum laboris from the “small groups” which show the unique connection between the family pastoral mission and that of young people. Above ...
Communication
The new edition of “Good News”, the Dicastery “TV News” is online
The new members and counselors of the Dicastery; the next World Meeting of Families to take place in Rome in 2021; the Bishops’ ad limina visits; details of the international meeting organised ...