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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 ...

Lay faithful
The future canonists of the Polish "Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński" University visited the Dicastery

  Students from the Faculty of Canon Law at "Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński" University in Warsaw, Poland, visited the Dicastery last week as part of a study trip that also included visits ...

World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly
The Dicastery’s Secretary comments on the theme chosen by Pope Francis

  © Vatican News - “His mercy is from age to age” is the theme of the third edition of the worldwide event, desired by Pope Francis, which will be celebrated on July 23 with a Mass by the ...

Charis
The Secretary, Fr. Awi Mello, meets with the coordinators of the National Services of Communion

  “Promoting, fostering and strengthening communion and unity among all the realities of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal in each country." With this encouragement Fr. Alexandre Awi Mello, ...

Secretary
Interview of the Secretary of the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life to Vatican News

  A Marian spirituality capable of touching the deepest chords of the priestly vocation, but not only, also giving new energy to the life of faith: this is the extreme synthesis of the charism ...

Secretary
A communiqué by Schoenstatt Fathers announces the General Council of the Community

  The 6th General Chapter of the Secular Institute of the Schoenstatt Fathers, which began meeting on August 3, 2022, elected the new General Council of the Community for the next six years, ...

Women
Concluding remarks by Fr. Awi Mello at the First International Seminar on Woman

  The Latin American Academy of Catholic Leaders organized its 1st International Seminar on Women with the objective of reflecting and deepening the role, contribution and challenges of women in ...

Laity
The Prefect and Secretary of the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life participated in the online course promoted by the archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro to the Bishops of Brazil

  The Bishops' Course is a study, update, and sharing meeting, organized by the Archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro which takes place every year in the month of January, with the participation of the ...

WYD
Exaudi News interview with the Secretary of the Dicastery in the run-up to the diocesan WYD on 21 November

  “Young people are ‘God’s now’ and the strength of the Church,” says Father Alexandre Awi Mello, Secretary of the Dicastery for the Laity, Family, and Life, when talking about  the ...

Sport
Acknowledgement of the Dicastery's work in promoting faith and values through sport

  On October 1st, the President of the Retina d'Oro, Mauro Rufini together with Sports Director, Giampiero Caneschi, presented the "Special 2021 Retina d'Oro Award" to the Dicastery for ...