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Middle East
Salvatore Martinez: “It will be a reference point for pilgrims and a place for diffusing the teaching on the family”
Set on a hill, on a site that covers 15,000 square meters, there will be a house for pilgrims with 103 family-sized rooms, a home for refugees and the poor, a church, and a structure with auditoriums ...
The comment
Renato Cursi and Fr. Fabio Attard tell about the Salesians’ experience in the light of the Synod and on the horizon of an authentic “connection” with the young
“Religion and especially Christianity is in seriously poor health. With some noteworthy exceptions, young adults no longer identify or practice religion. [...] Religion is dying, and Europe is ...
Local Churches
A Pan-American Network for the right to life has been created. The announcement was made by the Latin American Episcopal Council (Celam), through the Department of Life, Family and Youth, with a ...
Holiness of the Laity
The philosopher Alici: "Even the lay Christians, and not just the pastors, must have the ordour of the sheep"
The philosopher Luigi Alici, former national Italian Catholic Action president, presented, at the end of April, a reflection on the presidencies of the A.C.I. under the title "A People for ...
Dicastery
The video interview to the Under Secretary Linda Ghisoni foolowing the adoption of the new statute
"The competences of a Dicastery like ours, for the Laity, Family and Life, reveal themselves more and more in their connection, in their transversal interconnection." These are the words of ...
Women and Work
On May 4th, Fr. Alexandre Awi Mello introduced the conference on "The Added Value of Women between Business, Family and Society." The Secretary of the Dicastery offered an articulate ...
#Synod2018
The letter from the Archbishop of Chieti in view of the Synod of Bishops dedicated to young people
“I’m not writing to tell you what you have to do but to invite you to dream. Of course, if you know how to dream, your life will gradually become the most beautiful thing you can dream.” The ...
San Calisto Community
At the Dicastery, the second international seminar of the network of experts studying the educational programs in the emotional-sexual field
On 4 and 5 May, the San Calisto Community held its second international seminar at our Dicastery, to study proposals and interventions in the field of affective and sexual education in the light of ...
Dicastery
The Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life has a new statute. This statute, which was signed last April 10th and shall go into force on Sunday, May 13th, was promulgated today by its publication in ...
Movements and Associations
Pope Francis to the faithful in Tor Vergata: “You have in your DNA the vocation to the mission”
“The Risen Jesus says: ‘Make disciples’. This is the mission. He does not say: conquer, occupy, but rather, ‘make disciples’, that is, share with others the gift you have received, the encounter of ...