Local Church
WMOF
Address of Ireland’s Primate Archbishop Eamon Martin at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross
“The World Meeting will seek to communicate and distil for our times the beautiful and prophetic vision of God’s plan for marriage and the family” because “we believe that the Church’s proclamation of ...
Local Churches
“Love between man and woman is obviously one of the most generative human experiences. It is the leaven of the culture of encounter and gives the present world an injection of sociality. Indeed, the ...
Local Churhces
Reflections and testimonies of the National Office of the Italian Episcopal Conference to walk on the “Roads of Happiness”
Four days of meetings, reflections, and conferences to trace “Roads of Happiness” in the man-woman alliance. This is the theme of the 20th National Week of Study on Conjugal and Family Spirituality, ...
Local Churches
A reflection on Amoris Laetitia from the Bishops of Lombardy
“We are addressing the diocesan and religious priests, the pastoral workers, and the families of our local churches to express our views on the reception of this important document in our context. We ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ad limina
A Church called to account for her faith in a difficult context
The presence of the Catholic Church and of other Christians in Pakistan continues to be problematic. This was reported by the Bishops of Pakistan who came for their Ad Limina visit a few days ago. The ...
Local Churches
From the Archdiocese of Palermo, a document based on the experiences gathered by pastoral care workers compared with the documents of the Church
After long elaboration, the Family Ministry Office of the Archdiocese of Palermo has presented the document “For a Diocesan Itinerary of Marriage Preparation.” The text is the result of the collection ...