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Associations and Movements
The members of the movement “Diaconie de la Beauté” meet Pope Francis: “The Church counts on you to make the ineffable beauty of God’s love perceptible”

“I invite you to develop your talents to contribute to an ecological conversion that recognizes the eminent dignity of each person, his particular value, his creativity, and his ability to promote the ...

Defense of Life
The Jérôme Lejeune Foundation Chair in Bioethics makes available a collection of unpublished materials on Pope Paul VI’s encyclical

Fifty years after the publication of the encyclical “Humanae Vitae,” the Jérôme Lejeune Foundation Chair in Bioethics has published the Humanae Vitae Project, a collection of unpublished materials ...

WMOF
An ideal resource for parishes, available in five languages, combined with the preparatory catecheses

Giuseppe Verdi’s “Va’ Pensiero,” one of the best-known choruses in the history of opera, serves as the soundtrack for the second multimedia art clip produced by the Dicastery, in collaboration with ...

Associations and Movements
The words of Msgr. Bassetti, President of the Italian Bishops’ Conference, and Fr. Gentili, head of the Family Ministry Office, to the assembly of the Forum of Family Associations. President De Palo: “Family are the cue not the illness”

“If the families stop, the country’s social motor will stop, the heart of society will stop beating. And if the heart stops beating, after a while brain death will follow. To prevent this drift, we ...

WMOF
From 21 to 24 August, roundtables and debates at the Royal Dublin Society in Dublin

Each day, there will be roundtables, debates, moments of conviviality and prayer for the families, with appropriate activities for children and young people. All this is on the program of the ...

Movements and Associations
The study conducted by the Dicastery official Milligan on “Approaches to Authority and Obedience in the International Ecclesial Movements and New Communities”

“Ecclesial Movements and New Communities contribute to the life of the Church as authentic schools of virtue: useful for learning authority as service, and for aspiring to obedience as something ...

Local Churches
From the Italian Diocese of Sora, a letter for Easter inspired by Amoris Laetitia

“The Family, a Place of Blessing” is the theme of the letter that Bishop Gerardo Antonazzo addressed to the community of Sora for Lent and in the perspective of Easter. In continuity with previous ...

FAFCE
In Bucharest, a conference on “The Family at the Center of the Economy” promoted by the Federation of Catholic Family Associations in Europe

The Federation of Catholic Family Associations in Europe (FAFCE) recently met with the Romanian Association “Vladimir Ghika” for a conference in Bucharest on the theme: “The Family at the Center of ...

Associations and Movements
Members of “Communion Notre-Dame de l’Alliance,” an association that takes care of separated and divorced persons, came to visit the Dicastery

The Council of “Communion Notre-Dame de l’Alliance” came to visit the Dicastery during a recent pilgrimage to Rome. Founded in 1983, this association of faithful recognized by the French Bishops’ ...

John Paul II Institute
A book to deepen the ethics of married life

“Understanding the ethics of married life more deeply and learning to look at the human person more adequately” are the objectives of the book “Karol Wojtyla and Humanae vitae. The Contribution of the ...