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Family and New Technologies
The report of the International Center for Family Studies: “The Social Networks, Valid Support”
The favorite social network of families is WhatsApp, where most of the family connections are present (82%). On Facebook, however, they are just over one half (51.4%). The instant messaging ...
Russia
The Ad Limina Visit of the Russian Bishops to the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life
A vast territory with few priests, “new Christians” who need formation, and great commitment in defense of life. This is, in short, the situation of the Catholic Church in Russia told about by the ...
John Paul II Institute
The Chair “Gaudium et Spes” at the Pontifical John Paul II Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences was inaugurated a few days ago. “The new chair—a note indicates—expresses the ...
The Expert’s Note
A comment on the 2017 CISF Report by Dr. Marco Brusati, analyst of anthropological models of the mass media system
"We need a specific and stable commitment to know and guide the media relations of the very young, starting as early as late childhood; for example and as a first step, we cannot ignore whose ...
Associations and Movements
Prefect Farrell at the Day of Study on “Charism and Institution:” “The ecclesial movements awaken the hunger for divine life.”
“Charisms must be considered from the point of view of evangelization, not from the point of view of a division of power within the Church. It is in the perspective of the new evangelization that the ...
Local Churches
The Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences calls for reflection on the Catholic family as a domestic Church on a mission of mercy
The Churches in Asia “reaffirm the mission of pastoral care of families. To fulfill this mission, the family needs a formation that empowers it, so that everyone feels called to love family life.” ...
WMOF
The eighth podcast in the series “Let’s Talk Family” designed to accompany the World Meeting of Families, is online.
Richard Brennan, head of the volunteer project of the 2018 World Meeting of Families, is the protagonist of the new episode—the eighth one—of the series of podcasts “Let’s Talk Family” proposed weekly ...
WMOF
The official presentation of international preparatory catechesis for the Dublin Meeting: lectio and musical itineraries with Maestro Bocelli at the Sagrada Familia
Seven catecheses, one for each month from now until August, combined with as many musical itineraries and videos. This is the Dicastery’s proposal that was presented today in at a press conference in ...
Local Churches
Bishop De Luca: “360-degree help for the family so that it may be the territory’s absolute protagonist of the territory”
A Family Help Center named “Amoris Laetitia” was opened a few weeks ago in the diocese of Termoli-Larino to provide assistance and support of experts and qualified personnel in different fields. A ...
Formation
A course on the theology of marriage begins tomorrow at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum
The Faculty of Theology of the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum has organized, in collaboration with the Project Misterogrande, a course of nuptial theology that will begin tomorrow and last ...