Movements and Communities

Youth
A presentation of future projects for and with young people, including GenFest 2024

  The Secretary of the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life, Dr Gleison De Paula Souza, together with officials from the youth area of the Dicastery, welcomed the group from the International ...

#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
The organism’s General Assembly was held prior to the event in the Paul VI Hall where Pope Francis spoke

  It has now been more than four years since the founding of CHARIS, the body erected by the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life to serve the current of grace of the Catholic Charismatic ...

Associations and movements
Theme of the Meeting: Apostolicity, the heart of movements' identity

    This year marks the 25th anniversary of the first World Congress of Ecclesial Movements and New Communities, organized by the Pontifical Council for the Laity, which concluded with a ...

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 ...

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, ...

Associations and Movements
The synthesis and available texts of the Annual Meeting with the Moderators held yesterday, April 28, 2022

  On April 28, 2022, at the Aula della Congregazione of the General Curia of the Jesuits in Rome, the customary Annual Meeting with the Moderators of Associations of the Faithful, Ecclesial ...

Associations and Movements
April 28, 2022, the Annual Meeting of the various aggregations of the faithful will take place

  Work as a value in itself, a place of sanctification and of civil and Christian witness for every baptized person, even for those who are employed by the association to which they belong; the ...