Associations of Lay Faithful

Dicastery
The meeting of Father Chagas with Fr. Fornos and Fr. Ramirez of the Apostolate of Prayer at the General Curia of the Jesuits

A few days ago, Father João Chagas, head of our Dicastery’s Youth Office, met with Fr. Frédéric Fornos and Fr. Luis Ramirez, respectively director and assistant of the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network ...

Associations and Movements
At the Dicastery, a meeting with the international delegation of the International Military Apostolate

A few days ago, the Secretary Fr. Alexandre Awi Mello, together with the officials in charge of ecclesial aggregations Mr. Philip Milligan and Fr. Giovanni Buontempo met representatives of the AMI ...

Youth
In January, representatives of the International Catholic Conference of Guiding will meet the Prefect Card. Farrell

On the sidelines of the International Catholic Conference of Scouting, which was held a few days ago in Rome, some representatives of the International Catholic Conference of Scouting greeted the ...

Activities of the Dicastery
The visit of Gordian Godenus of the Family Business Network, one of the protagonists of the Dublin World Meeting of Families

A few days ago, the delegate of our Dicastery’s Family and Life Section, Msgr. Carlos Simon Vazquez, met Gordian Godenus, coordinator of the initiative “Vocation of the Business Leader: Reflections ...

Youth
The message of Cardinal Prefect Farrell to the participants at the International Catholic Conference of Scouting

“Always be conscious that time and energy spent on the formation of the spirit, mind and character of young people is the best investment in the future of the Church and civil society as a whole. ...

Associations and Movements

A few days ago, the international coordinators of the MILPA Association (Palautian Lay Missionaries) came to visit our Dicastery. The delegates were received by the Dicastery’s Secretary, Father ...

Popular Piety
Card. Farrell at the University of Murcia for the 3rd International Congress of Confraternities: Rendezvous in Malaga in 2021

The Prefect of the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life, Cardinal Kevin Farrell, and the delegate for the family, Msgr. Carlos Simón Vasquez, attended the 3rd International Congress of ...

Associations and Movements
Catholic Action celebrates its 150th annniversary with a documentary to tell about “lay people who are carrying the Church to the world”

What Catholic Action have the 150 years of the Association’s history formed? This is the question that Antonia Pillosio’s documentary “Catholic Action a Continuing Story” is intended to answer. The ...

Laity
The 4th national meeting promoted by Portugal’s National Committee of Lay Apostolate Associations will be held on November 17th and 18th

“This is the time to hope with all your hope, to work for justice and peace, and to love people, one by one.” This is the theme of the 4th National Meeting of Laity, which will take place on 17 and 18 ...

Associations and Movements
An international delegation comes to the Dicastery to meet the Secretary, Father Awi Mello, and Father Buontempo

Yesterday morning, an international delegation of the Marianist Lay Communities (MLC) met with Fr. Alexandre Awi Mello, Secretary of the Dicastery, and Fr. Giovanni Buontempo, in charge of the ...