Amoris Laetitia

Amoris Laetitia 10th Anniversary
The Meeting convened by His Holiness Pope Leo XIV with the Heads of the Eastern Catholic Churches and the Presidents of the Episcopal Conferences will be held in the Vatican from 7 to 14 October 2026

  Ten years after Amoris laetitia: proclaiming the Gospel with families today. The Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life and the General Secretariat of the Synod have published the ...

Amoris Laetitia

      Dear brothers and sisters, On 19 March 2016, Pope Francis offered the universal Church a luminous message of hope regarding conjugal love and family life, which was the ...

The Pope Video
In the video recorded a few weeks ago, Pope Francis asks us to pray for broken families

  Pope Francis dedicates his prayer intention for the month of March to families in crisis. This is an increasingly more important theme in society today in which the number of separations and ...

Bioethics
An e-book to help younger people grasp the truth about the beauty and uniqueness of every human life

  At the closure of the "Amoris Laetitia Family" Year, and some days after the 10th World Meeting of Families, the Keys to Bioethics - A Manual of Bioethics for Youth App, created ...

Amoris Laetitia Family Year
In the book 'Holiness in the Families of the World' - now available in pdf version - the story of love and holiness of Mr and Mrs Martin and seven other families

  On 12 July we celebrate the memory of the holy spouses Luis Martin (1823-1894) and Zélie Guérin (1831-1877), spouses and parents of nine children, including Saint Teresa of the Child Jesus, ...

#WMOF22
The "Jubilee of Families," in 2025 in Rome and the 11th World Meeting of Families in 2028 are the next upcoming events for families throughout the world, announced the Prefect of our Dicastery

The main celebrations of the 10th World Meeting of Families concluded with Mass in St. Peter's Square on the evening of Saturday, June 25. In his homily, the Pope encouraged families to carry on the ...

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The final day of the Pastoral Theological Congress marked with the presentation of the book "Holiness in Families around the World"

  The third and final day of the Pastoral Theological Congress of the 10th World Meeting of Families began with a Eucharistic adoration intended to offer the couples present an opportunity to ...

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A practical and profound journey to know the great mystery of marriage

  In the Year for the Family “Amoris Laetitia”, the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life has prepared this booklet on “Holiness in Families around the World” with the purpose of providing family ...

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The welcoming speech of Card. Farrell and the first day of the Theological-Pastoral Congress

  With the celebration of the opening Mass in St. Peter's Basilica - presided by Card. Kevin Farrell, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life - began the second day of the 10th ...

WMOF 2022
In support of the catechesis "Excuse me, Thank You, Sorry", of WMOF 2022, the short film produced by the Diocese of Rome

  Sara and Gianluca have been married for ten years and live in Villaggio Breda, eastern suburbs of Rome. They are parents of two little girls, they work, but most of all they work hard in the ...