Undersecretary Life
Human Life
The Holy See’s project, launched with the publication of the booklet “Life Is Always a Good”, is being carried out through dialogue with the local Churches
Between May and December 2025, 15 online meetings were held by the Dicastery’s Family and Life Area with 60 heads of the Offices for the Pastoral Care of Life from the Conferences of Bishops of ...
Human Life and Family
Family Global Compact Barcelona: an exemplary collaboration in the face of the challenges of euthanasia and assisted suicide
On 15 November, Prof. Gabriella Gambino, Undersecretary of the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life, took part in a study day organized by the Family Global Compact Barcelona platform, ...
Human Life
A series of webinars with delegates from the Life Offices of the Episcopal Conferences has begun: one more step towards building a Pastoral Care of Human Life
Following the recent publication of the resource “Life is always a good”, edited by the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life, the first two online meetings were held in May and June with the ...
Women
Sex-selective practices in Gabriella Gambino’s address at the side event of the 69th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in New York
“The international community must therefore feel called to reflect on the urgency of establishing a universal ban on all forms of sex-selective practices, both before and after birth, and to ...
Women
Education, cultural shift in family and motherhood, recognition of the dignity and the right to life of every human being in the Statement by Gabriella Gambino, Head of the Holy See Delegation at the UN 69th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women
Equality between man and woman, much remains to be done. Education, cultural shift in family and motherhood, recognition of the dignity and the right to life of every human being: these are the ...
World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly
A tradition that is consolidated year after year through meeting and sharing
Recalling the celebration of the 4th World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly after the Angelus of Sunday, 28 July, Pope Francis called everyone “to listen to the voice of the elderly who ...
Life
A meeting at the UN in Geneva to reflect on the exploitation and commodification of women and children
Gabriella Gambino, Under-Secretary of the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life, moderated a meeting in Geneva – ‘At what price? Towards the abolition of surrogacy: Preventing the expolitation ...
Life
Under-secretary Gambino's video message to the National Pastoral Meeting with the guatemalteche families
“The pastoral care of life is called to give value to the dignity of every person in every situation and age, as well as to accompany it to fullness”. With these words Professor Gabriella ...
Life
A reflection by the Undersecretary of the Department, Prof. Gabriella Gambino, on the case of little Indi Gregory
Published in L'Osservatore Romano is a reflection by Prof. Gabriella Gambino, Undersecretary of the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life, on the story of little Indi Gregory, the ...
Grandparents and the Elderly
Meeting with the heads of pastoral care for the Elderly of the European Bishops' Conferences
Publishing both the Holy Father's message for the World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly and the pastoral guidelines prepared by the Dicastery represented an opportunity for an online ...