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Pope Francis
The Apostolic Exhortation “Gaudete et exsultate”: One becomes a saint by living the beatitudes
Pope Francis has chosen to put the spirit of joy in the opening of his most recent Apostolic Exhortation. “Gaudete et exsultate”—“Rejoice and be glad” is the title of the document, which recalls the ...
Theology of the family
A text by Sister Rita Ndoci on the theology of the family in Familiaris Consortio and Gratissimam Sane for the new evangelization in Albania
This volume is the result of a long period of study and research. This is how the Archbishop of Scutari presented the work of Sr. Rita Ndoci, Sister of Jesus the Good Shepherd, a precious contribution ...
UN
Commission on the status of women: Focus on education and integral development in the era of ideological colonization
Women, particularly those living in rural areas of the world, were the protagonists in New York at the recent conference of the UN Commission on the status of women. Archbishop Bernardito Auza, ...
Brazil
National meeting of the coordinators “La Pastoral da Pessoa Idosa”
From 22 to 25 March, the National Meeting of the coordinators “La Pastoral da Pessoa Idosa” was held in Curitiba, Brazil, with the participation of Vittorio Scelzo from our Dicastery’s Section for ...
WMOF
The 10th podcast of “Let’s Talk Family,” the series designed to accompany the World Meeting of Families, is online
Three diocesan delegates for the World Meeting of Families are the protagonists of the new episode of the podcast series “Let’s Talk Family” proposed in view of the event in Dublin. Brenda Drumm is, ...
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 ...