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WMOF
Combined with preparatory catechesis, available in five languages, it is an ideal resource for parishes
"Ombra mai fu", the opening aria of Georg Friedrich Handel’s opera “Xerxes,” is the soundtrack of the third multimedia artistic clip produced by the Dicastery with the collaboration of the ...
JP II Institute
A colloquium to understand the nature and consequences of the relationship between Christian action and sacramental action
“Acting Sacramentally and Acting in the Family: What kind of Synergy?” is the theme of the V Sacramental Theology Colloquium organized for April 20 by the international research section in sacramental ...
Easter
Easter greetings of the Dicastery’s Secretary, Father Alexandre Awi Mello
“May this Easter be a time of renewal for everyone and for the Church through the family and the young!” This is the wish that the Dicastery’s Secretary, Father Alexandre Awi Mello, addresses to ...
Way of the cross
Conclusive meditation by prefect Kevin Farrell
Dear young people, This evening, we have retraced the painful journey towards the death on the cross that Jesus lived through in the last hours of his earthly life. And we reflected on the human pain ...
Local Churches
With the words of Davide Rondoni and the music of Federico Mantovani, Pope Francis’s text is beginning to be translated into “emotional languages”
Making Pope Francis’s Post-Synodal Exhortation Amoris Laetitia into a cantata for vocal recitation by solists, with a choir and orchestra—this is the initiative sponsored by the diocese of Cremona ...
Laity
Pope Francis has recognized that the 16-year-old Slovak girl was killed in 1944 “in defensum castitatis”
Anna Kolesárová will be beatified: Pope Francis officially recognized her martyrdom in defense of bodily chastity, thus paving the way for the beatification of the young Slovak from the diocese of ...
Ad limina
A Church called to account for her faith in a difficult context
The presence of the Catholic Church and of other Christians in Pakistan continues to be problematic. This was reported by the Bishops of Pakistan who came for their Ad Limina visit a few days ago. The ...
Dicastery
The first interview with the undersecretary of the section for life, Gabriella Gambino: “Giving birth in a horizon of freedom and responsibility, aware of the inviolable value of every human life”
“It seems urgent to me for us, especially in the Church, to work not only to succeed in educating women in their bioethical profile and to make them aware of the challenges they must recognize in ...
Local Churches
From the Archdiocese of Palermo, a document based on the experiences gathered by pastoral care workers compared with the documents of the Church
After long elaboration, the Family Ministry Office of the Archdiocese of Palermo has presented the document “For a Diocesan Itinerary of Marriage Preparation.” The text is the result of the collection ...
#Synod2018
Today the Via Crucis will be presided by Prefect Farrell for the young people gathered for the pre-Synodal meeting
Today, Prefect Kevin Farrell will preside over the Via Crucis that will set out from the cloister of the Basilica of St. John Lateran and go through the streets of Rome. This is one of the events ...