Associations of Lay Faithful

#laityfamilylife
De Paula Souza: “A project to enrich reflection on the issues being addressed by our Dicastery”

  Today’s podcast concludes the #laityfamilylife Podcast series. The topics discussed in the series include the service provided by the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life with pastoral ...

Associations and Movements
Invitation to stand at the crossroad of today with the same confidence and generous attitude as Mary

    On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the foundation, on last December 7, Pope Francis received the group leaders of the Focolare Movement - the Work of Mary, accompanied by the ...

Associations and Movements
Three thousand participants in the United Arab Emirates for CHARIS' fifth local gathering

    From December 1 to Sunday, December 3, the 5th Convention of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal organized by the CHARIS  National Service of Communion of the United Arab Emirates is ...

Associations and movements
The passing of the Foundress of the Comunità Cenacolo

  On the night of Aug. 3, Mother Elvira Petrozzi, Foundress of the Comunità Cenacolo, left this world and the work she began, forty years after opening her first home. The Dicastery remembers her ...

Associations and Movements
Decree presented to the President and Founders

  During a ceremony that took place in the Aula Magna of the Dicastery on Monday, June 26, the Decree by which the Via Pacis Association obtained confirmation of recognition as an international ...

Pubblications
A LEV publication with the proceedings of the last annual meeting of associations of the faithful and Church movements

  The Libreria Editrice Vaticana published the proceedings of the Annual Meeting sponsored by the Dicastery last year with the moderators of associations of the faithful, ecclesial movements and ...

Associations and movements
An insight into the meaning of the statutes for an association that is recognized by the Church

  The statutes of an associations are a "guarantee for safeguarding the charism" that generated them. A statutory text reflects and guards the life and charism typical of an ...

Associations and Movements
The Prefect Card. Farrell delivered the Decree to members of the presidency

  During a ceremony that took place in the Dicastery's Aula Magna, the Decree by which the International Community of the Divine Savior was granted recognition as an International Association of ...

New communities
Prefect Farrell's address during the Course for the Bishops of Brazil

  The new communities are "a resource and a great potential" because they "can offer their members paths for evangelization and catechesis, of first proclamation, of Christian ...

Movements and Associations
The words of Card. Kevin Farrell at the 8th Assembly of IFCA- International Forum of Catholic Action

  On Saturday, Nov. 26 and Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022, the International Forum of Catholic Action, the organization that gathers and coordinates the world's Catholic Action associations, celebrated ...